NounSingular innovation Plural innovations innovation (plural innovations)
From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. The term innovation refers to a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. Following Schumpeter (1934), contributors to the scholarly literature on innovation typically distinguish between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully in practice. In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy. Innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. Colloquially, the word "innovation" is often synonymous with the output of the process. However, economists tend to focus on the process itself, from the origination of an idea to its transformation into something useful, to its implementation; and on the system within which the process of innovation unfolds. Since innovation is also considered a major driver of the economy, especially when it leads to increasing productivity, the factors that lead to innovation are also considered to be critical to policy makers. In particular, followers of innovation economics stress using public policy to spur innovation and growth. Those who are directly responsible for application of the innovation are often called pioneers in their field, whether they are individuals or organisations. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How would an innovation like credit card affect an economy that operates under a flexible exchange rate? Q. An economy operates under a flexible exchange rate. The government budget and trade account are currently balanced. Credit cards, a fairly recent innovation in the banking sector, allow consumers to mak epurchases without holding cash. How would this innovation will affect equilibrium GDP, consumption spending, the budget balance and the exchange rate. How would the impact differ under a fixed exchange rate. Asked by Aruna - Fri Mar 7 19:50:02 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. It depends on how the credit cards are used. When credit cards were first introduced in the U.S. they had little effect - people used them for convenience, rather than a sway to live in debt. Then the credit card companies ran ad campaigns that convinced people to spend money they didn't have and succeeded in changing consumer behavior. That had a major effect - equivalent to a major influx of money. Answered by simplicitus - Tue Mar 11 02:50:41 2008 How can we encourage technology and innovation in third world economies? Q. Technology and innovation are critical to the success of any economy. Yet there are trade barriers that prevent economic development(like farm subsidies), political unstablility that discourages investent and lack of resources. How do we overcome these obstacles? Asked by Someguy - Thu Jul 13 22:19:41 2006 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. Technology (with adequite skills training!) often precedes development, as it creates a platform for interventions and further innovation. However, such technology should be developed by using local intelligence, or at the very least, collaborating prior to implementing with an assumption that "if it works for the first economy, it is good enough for the second economy". More than often, it is NOT - as the later requires more, and not less, to 'overcome obstacles' and barriers to entry unforeseen during product development. It was already demonstrated that ICT (at least) can be a powerful tool for development, both because of ICT's inherent characteristics and the mounting empirical evidence that suggests it can in fact contribute a great… [cont.] Answered by MeerKatje - Sun Jul 23 02:01:01 2006 What are the pros and cons of innovation?
Q. what good does innovation bring? what bad things can result from innovation? Asked by maicacruz89 - Sun Nov 5 09:42:25 2006 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. Well just look at what you did... what an innovative idea Bill Gates and his partner had when they invented d-base - which now runs the World on the Web... now what is the BAD thing about it .. over 400 thousand paedophiles roaming the Internet - every second! Rip-off artists - stealing your ID - your money - and in a millions of cases - ruining peoples lives forever! -The list is endless... Now just look at the Innovative idea of the Atomic Bomb ... I don't need to tell you the cons on that one do I? Answered by peaches - Sun Nov 5 09:53:24 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "innovation" The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. Innovation
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