About Me

My photo
I came to the US, to make high-nutrient, disease-immune and easy to grow genetically engineered potato. Initially, I was concentrating on the science side, but eventually started to realize, that it is not only science that needs to be changed but also the 'system' where scientific innovation resides. After completing a doctoral degree in bioengineering and innovation management, I have ventured to study international management and international politics, as a means to study science policy. My eventual goal is to apply the science policy in developing nations, but I am now focusing to apply in Japan, where the country is in deep trouble, not being able to align the country with rapidly spreading globalization.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Surveying and Innovation

As the attempt to routinize the output process...it is now the second day.
EP and I went to the nearby mall to do a survey for our product development class.

I will try to connect surveying and innovation, today.

Survey is a method of acquiring information.
If you change the method with which you acquire the information, you will gather different kind of information. Whether the information that you gather is useful or not depends on the question you ask.
"What is the utility of information"? Utility of information depends on the 'purpose' of the manner in which the information will be used.  What if the purpose of the information that you are looking for is something related to innovation? If all utility was linearly correlated with innovativeness? (Unlike 'invention', where there isn't necessarily economic utility, innovation is taken to contain economic utility within it's meaning) ...so utility is in line with innovativeness.

Then the ultimate question boils down to...what sort of questions should be asked to induce innovation?
________
Could one trigger creativity by asking series of 'right' questions?
Perhaps...if creativity is defined by the ability to connect several seemingly unrelated fields together, then asking the right question can facilitate the 'linking process'...thereby assisting to foster creativity....

I want to be an innovation expert...



No comments: