Innovation

Innovation

What is Innovation?

What is Innovation 

Why is Innovation Important?

Innovation is defined as the process of bringing about new ideas, methods, products, services, or solutions that have a significant positive impact and value.

 It involves transforming creative concepts into tangible outcomes that improve efficiency, and effectiveness, or address unmet needs.

Good innovation can lead to more effective and popular items

Innovation isn't just about new things; it's also about making what we have better in efficiency and quality. All these items and services through history, can now be done by one item. Do you know what it is?

What item do you think this is?

A man could chat and see a lady in Paris. Now, we have Facetime.

Robots would clean houses. Now, We have Roombas that clean floors.

100 years ago, people were asked what the future would look like for industries and business. Most of them believed we would live underwater, but, some predicted ideas that actually we innovated in the future. 

This item was innovated through the years into an item that is very important today. Can you guess what it is?

1. Shield
2. Door
3. Wheel
4. Hula Hoop

2000 BC

1889

1889

2013

Drag which picture of a wheel belongs to which year they were invented.

When was the first wheel invented?

The first wheel was invented around 3500 BC.

They used to use logs to transport goods before the invention of the wheel. 

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Famous Innovators

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Alexander Graham Bell was the first inventor to patent a working telephone. On March 10, 1876, Bell made the first successful test of the telephone saying “Mr. Watson, come here.”

Marie Curie is best known for her work on radioactivity and for discovering the element polonium, theorgy of radioactivity and she would become the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. 

Galileo was a famous Italian astronomer who pioneered the use of the telescope for observing the night sky, discovering the Moon’s craters and Jupiter's moons

Thomas Edison invented the telegraph, the universal stock ticker, the phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and the Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright were American brothers who invented and built the world's first successful airplane?

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