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Tag: Innovation

Why creativity shouldn’t be consigned to a ghetto, inspired by Sir Ken Robinson

Take a few min­utes to watch this.  Here are a few high­lights: “Cre­ativ­ity in edu­ca­tion is as impor­tant as lit­er­acy and we should treat it with the same sta­tus.” “Chil­dren have an extra­or­di­nary capac­ity for inno­va­tion.” “My con­tention is that all kids have excep­tional tal­ent and we squan­der it pretty ruth­lessly.” “If you’re not prepared […]

The innovation driver: Lifespans

via mjperry.blogspot.com More peo­ple, liv­ing longer, con­sum­ing more resources, increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion, dri­ves inno­va­tion. I look back over my life­time and believe that the sin­gle biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion from 150 mil­lion to 300 mil­lion and the global pop­u­la­tion from about 3 bil­lion to 7 bil­lion. One major […]