Schumpeter, Innovation and “schöpferische Zerstörung”
… while looking up sites on innovation, I started with “the source”. And came across some Wikipedia entries.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumpeter is the English article on Schumpeter
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation is the German article on innovation, in points to “Schöpferische Zerstörung”.
- Cooper’s Stage-Gate-System
What I think is important is the distinction between invention und innovation. Invention is concerned with coming up with ideas, building prototypes, etc. Innovation is about implementation and realisation.
As researchers we are mainly concerned with invention, i.e., coming up with ideas and building prototypes.
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