In May, 2006, the National Science Foundation hosted a workshop entitled “The Scientific Basis of Individual and Team Innovation and Discovery” (Schunn, Paulus, Cagan, & Wood, 2006). An important outcome of the workshop was a focus on the emerging research opportunity of the cognition of engineering innovation. To advance industry’s ability to be innovative, a fundamental understanding of how i...

This paper examines the recent efforts by the Singapore government to promote the spirit of Innovation and Enterprise (I&E) in all schools in Singapore. This paper begins by identifying the ideology of Realism-Pragmatism underpinning education in Singapore. The paper then discusses the motivation and some of the key changes and challenges in the drive towards innovation and enterprise in Singap...

electronic shopping has increased in recent years increasingly. people who use this channel as an instrument of marketing and selling of goods, understand that consumers do not only focus on timely delivery of goods. but they are also looking for new and different products. thus, the marketers and companies must understand the innovative elements that effective on consumer purchases. in the pre...

As innovation becomes the cornerstone for new problem solving and creation of private and public value, this paper introduces the design thinking approach as a new means of systematic innovation. We introduce the approach with two short examples from programs to graduate students. We illustrate the setup of a design thinking program by using the HPI School of Design Thinking as a case study in ...

Lehoux et al provide a timely and relevant turn on the broad and ongoing discussion around the introduction of health technology and innovation. More specifically, the authors suggest a demand-driven approach to health innovation that starts from identifying challenges and demands at the health system level. In this commentary, I review a number of underlying implications of their study in rela...