The Importance of Innovation for Everyone

Definitions of innovation are numerous, since it differs from one person's perspective to another's, and I see this definition as the most fitting: "It is the study of a problem, deficiency, weakness, or need, and the bringing forth of theoretical or applicable, implementable solutions that would solve it to a very great extent."

Innovation is important to human beings because it permeates every part of our lives and every product. If we look back more than a thousand years, wheeled carts were a great innovation for transportation, and today we see ultra-fast travel through space. Video calls today, had someone seen them a thousand years ago, would have gotten us stoned and accused of heresy, blasphemy, and quackery. And had humans kept innovating without political challenges, lobbies, and conspiracies, we would have arrived at many technologies that contribute to the elevation of mankind in every part of their day and life.

Innovation is very important in achieving leaps in services; even inventing the caps on beverage bottles that are not thrown away is a pioneering innovation in the interest of people. Before that, metal caps were everywhere and harmed people. Among the distinguished innovations are the invention of plastic, nylon, styrofoam, even long-life milk, hydroponic farming within its plastic houses, and many other matters difficult to confine within enormous volumes.

The Isthmus Between Innovation and Development

Many of us confuse innovation with development. As for the latter, it falls within the circle of improvements to existing things, such as adding new features to an existing system, whereas innovation is a major update and addition that makes a difference.

Illustrative Examples

Among the examples of the difference between innovation and development is the example of engines. If we take an 8-cylinder engine with 450 horsepower, using development we reduced the number of cylinders to 4, added turbo engines and other improvements and technologies that make the new engine deliver 450 horsepower at half the fuel consumption and with the same power, this is considered a development on the engine, whereas the innovation of electric motors adds an entirely different dimension, and here we call it an innovation.

Among the examples is the foldable phone. Such an innovation made a big difference in the world of smartphones, and how it is a simple phone with complete services, then transforms, just by opening it, into a full-sized tablet for reading, writing, note-taking, drawing, watching, and innovating. Here we see the big difference between an update to tablets and the innovation of the fold.

Among the innovative solutions is solving the physical problem of battery size, which was overcome by innovating the speed of new mechanisms for charging the battery very quickly. This innovation is important to our subject because it looked at the problem from several angles and innovated on an angle amenable to that, which made a big difference and a wonderful addition.

Who Can Innovate?

Everyone can innovate, and the fields for innovation are limitless. The matter requires searching for a problem, challenge, or need. For example, delivery apps found a need and a problem and became the innovative method for ordering food from all its aspects. The Hisabati app, linkconnects.com, is an innovative way to list your accounts; home farming of vegetables inside the house with devices is an innovative way in food; modern irrigation methods, smart assistants, smart bulbs, portable battery-powered generators as an innovative alternative to petroleum-fueled electric generators. Innovations are very many, even in cooking, decoration, clothing, and electronic services.

Steps of Innovation

First, finding and defining the problem, challenge, or need; second, thinking within all angles and dimensions; third, proposing the probable and improbable solutions; fourth, finding applicable or theoretical solutions for all possibilities; fifth, the experiments; sixth, verifying the appropriate timing for release; seventh, implementation.

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Many companies claim innovation, and every year they present some improvements, then hang all the advertisements on them. Innovation is to bring something distinguished and new that has value.

Al-Roeya Newspaper

27 February 2022

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