Innovation Overdrive

What exactly innovation is ?

• Innovation isn't rocket science. It's an obsession with understanding or creating what makes consumers happy, what delights them, which problems they face, and then creating something that delivers to those needs.


• Innovation is not necessarily about serious people in white coats puttering about in R&D labs. In an experience economy (which we’re still in, like it or not), marketing innovations rule.

In today's world, MONEY = ACCESSIBILITY * TIME

Some of the ideas around Telecommunication primarily for GSM, which has been contemplated by me are:

• Call to multiple individuals/parties : Sanjay is in jiffy and don't know which of his pals are busy, but he wants to talk to one of them. He dials a special code (ofcourse a new service provided by CSM) his call gets forked to multiple calls (to all of his friends) and as soon as the first one picks up, the rest of the calls die automatically.


• Usage besides the aforementioned: Calling Police (several of the nearest stations will be called)

• Ex-Girlfriend: You must have experienced it, bank employees calling you time and again, at the worst hours of the day when you have loads of work. An application developed which will, upon ur feedback, shall hangup those callers. You don't have to get irked now.


• Usage besides the aforementioned: Your ex-girlsfriend would never be able to irate you. Making your life a lot simpler.

• Predictive presence via SIM Card: On the basis of the past call history, predict the availability schedule of a caller for a particular call by callee. This would be somewhat like idle/non-idle status on Yahoo Messenger or red-orange-green color on GTalk, predicting the future availabilty based on the past behaviour.


• Usage besides the aforementioned: Cool application for corporate CEOs, there is scope for a number of additions besides thiEncyclopedia for Mobile phone users to make it a must avail service.

• Encyclopedia for Mobile phone users: The website will be a collection of Knowledge clips (GIF animations and audio descriptions ), the mobile website must be very fast & very easily accessible.


• Revenue model : Advertising :- Clippings for books, new movies, restaurants.

Evolution or Creation Theory

The latter would seem to be the title of a work devoted to agricultural produces. Just that here it does not speak of "crops" but of "culture."
The reference is obviously to the superficiality that often characterises the approach of human sensibility towards things which regard the world, which is, as said, superficial.
This superficiality does not often allow us to fully see the aspects that surround us or, at least, relegates us to the simple role of men who are satisfied by what we learn or what we are told.
But science, just like faith, cannot grow (inside and outside of us) if it does not continually doubt in order to verify, mature, and assimilate better.
Returning therefore to the main title, we immediately have to report a serious scientific gap that has distinguished itself, above all in the last century, not so much as the result of a free and unconditioned Enlightenment, but, it seems to us, as the result of an exaggerated trust in the theory of evolution which in some respects has led to the extreme consequences of being scientifically (and mathematically) impossible.
In order to enter into the heart of the matter, not everyone perhaps knows that the debate between supporters of the theories of creation and of evolution, (which marked the beginning of the scientific model) has never been resolved and which, above all today, thanks to ever greater scientific knowledge and discoveries, is more open than ever.
Above all, the debate between scientific affirmations and theories is wide open.
In fact the discussion on the origins of life is not science in a narrow sense. This is due to the fact that the origins cannot be submitted to experimental verifications. When life began, or when the different types of organisms started to exist, scientific observatories did not exist. Besides these events no longer happen in the present world. Therefore, from a scientific point of view, the solution to the problem of the origins is impossible. The philosophical point of view of modern biologists with regards to the origins can be reduced to two: the doctrine of evolution and the doctrine of creation. The first affirm that life and its various forms have gradually appeared because of natural processes over long periods of time. The second believe that life in its principal forms instantly had its origin through the creative actions of the Creator himself.
Both the evolutionists and the creationists agree on the facts of present-day biology. The disagreement concerns the interpretation of the origins and the meanings of these facts.
Scientists use models to explain natural phenomena. Every proposed model is appraised according to its efficiency: how are the available data inserted in the model proposed for explaining a specific phenomenon?
In this way, even the two principal points of view which regard the origins can be summarized in an "evolutionist model" and a "creationist model". The model that better suits the available data will also be the most efficient and reasonable.
At this point it is useful to remember that some researchers have proposed a model that can be found half way between those mentioned above, accepting both the theories of evolution and creation. This position can be better understood after an evaluation of the two basic models. In any case, many scientists, both evolutionists and creationists, refuse this idea.
The coherent evolutionist affirms that if enough evolutionary processes exist to explain the data that we observe in nature - and he believes that they do exist - it is not then necessary to resort to creative processes. The creationist believes that it is necessary to postulate creative actions to explain the data coming from nature, and holds, therefore, that evolution is not necessary.
The two models are not compatible, if not at a very superficial level, since they diametrically represent two opposite points of view on the origins.

Scientific Innovations

Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)

The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)

The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)

The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)

The pyroscope, atmometer and
aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)

Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)

The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Devising the diagramatic system of representing
chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980

The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

Spirit of scientific innovation in India

Science is the key to salvation for the poor nations. It has been a liberating

force in ancient India upon which the foundation of modern science rests.
We are a nation of one billion people.

A recent attempt by Nature and Science to launch the SciDev.Net, to bring
useful literature to the reach of developing countries5,6 talks about the role of
innovations, but there is indeed nothing in the web site for the children of developing
countries that may help them cultivate the spirit of innovation. It is true
that poverty can be cured by development, and that true development can take
place only by innovations, which are an integral part of development6. However,
in order to translate this to reality we must understand that children are the
future of the world, and the seeds of innovation should be sown early in life.

Both students and teachers need to be aware of the latest developments in science.
More than this, scientists need to understand that they are being paid by
the society not only for good research, but they also have the responsibility to
teach the scientists of tomorrow.

I wonder, how many top scientists in India have ever gone to primary schools –
apart from being chief guests in school functions – to talk to school children or
deliver an inspiring talk to motivate them and inculcate the kind of spirit of innovation
that helped C. V. Raman to discover ‘a new type of secondary radiation’8 and
made him the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize. It was this inner drive
that compelled Raman not to bask in the glory after becoming a Nobel Laureate;
he went on to provide experimental proof for the spin of photons soon after.

Innovation at Edible front

Invention: chewing gum
Inventor: Thomas Adams Sr.
Birth: 1818
Death: 1905
AT A GLANCE: After he was defeated by the Americans in Texas, Mexican General Santa Anna was exiled to New York. Like many of his countrymen, Santa Anna chewed chicle. One day he introduced it to inventor Thomas Adams, who began experimenting with it as a substitute for rubber. Adams tried to make toys, masks, and rain boots out of chicle, but every experiment failed. Sitting in his workshop one day,tired and discouraged, he popped a piece of surplus stock into his mouth. In 1870, he opened the world’s first chewing gum factory making Adams New York No. 1.



Invention: Coca-Cola in 1886

Inventor: John Stith Pemberton

Birth: July 8, 1831 in Rome, Georgia
Death: August 16, 1888 in Columbus, Georgia

AT A GLANCE: The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola®, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.

Siemens | Innovation | Concept Creation

BMW (South Africa). Defining innovation.