Innovation

Product

My favorite page on "Design For Change" were the four steps of "I Can". I think this is a good page because it literally tells you how to bring about innovation to solve problems both simple and complicated. Innovation is the key to financial wealth because innovation drives the economy to create goods that are desired by multiple customers. An entrepreneur can take advantage of this fact and use a page such as the "I Can" steps to innovation to make a product that can literally change somebody's life for the better (and, unfortunately, for the worse as well).

Innovation is not just an idea relegated for teaching. Apple has, until recently, been the greatest example in the modern age regarding continuous innovation. Not since the time of Archimedes, has one entity done so much to change how we think about problems. Steve Jobs famously uttered "How can people know what they want when they haven't even seen it yet" while he was working on the first Apple computers in a garage. This is the kind of innovation that can change the world and how we live it.

 'In a time when there is hunger for innovation everywhere, we think our primary responsibility is to help prepare a generation of students to rise with the challenges of our times' (d.school).

I think that this quote is extremely accurate. Innovation will be the key to fighting off competition from countries such as India and China. The challenges of our times are based mainly on sustainable energy, population control, and feeding a world that grows rapidly every day. Now I am not one to discredit sustainable energy but let's be real. Compared to fossil fuels, sustainable energy is extremely inefficient and impractical to maintain the way of life we are accustomed to. We need innovation to find new energies that are both efficient and good for the environment. You can't have one or the other because the money is where you can balance the two. What energies that are better then, for example, wind and solar, are unknown to me at this present time. Hydrogen is a solution I think of, but for obvious reasons, we can't rely on it for all of our energy needs.

Core Concepts

Prototype: A first or preliminary model of something (usually a machine).

Entrepreneur: A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.

The easy definition is that entrepreneur is someone who networks with various businesses to find out and take advantage of business opportunities. \

My opinion on Sustainable Energy

I think sustainable energy is impractical right now. We live in a world driven by the power of fossil fuels. Nothing comes close to the amount of energy fossil fuels give off. At least ones sanctioned by both governments and the people. It is proven that alternative energies such as Hydrogen and Nuclear energy are both efficient and give a large amount of power. The alternative energy that can maintain and increase the quality of life we enjoy will be the way of the future. I just don't see Wind and solar energy doing that. These types of energies all depend of nature. But nature is unpredictable and unreliable. We need something that can be constantly pumping out large amounts of power that connect to electrical grids and thus, power our world.