Comments on: Innovation versus Invention

By: Nicolas Nova

Nicolas Nova — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:46:06 +0000

Thanks Louis-Eric!

The question of where innovation starts is a good one. I only have a personal answer about it as it seems to me that innovation starts with other consideration than the sole technology (more later in a post!)

By: aditya

aditya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:39:30 +0000

As competition gets tougher, that “20 plus” year gap between an invention and the market is set to reduce. This means we might end up implement an idea without completely understanding its consequences. I would like to get your views on innovation in our corporate blog (mahindrauniverse.com).

By: Louis-Eric

Louis-Eric — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:41:15 +0000

There’s a french philosopher at “La Sorbonne University”, Pierre Damiens Huyghe, who talks (I think in the same way?) about the difference between “invention” which is more in the field of the engineer whereas innovation (he calls it “dé-couverte” to underline that, as W Gibson puts it, the future is already here, one “just” have to “uncover it”) is more in the designer’s playground.

Does innovation starts when one tries to implement an invention in a (wider) social context therefore with other considerations than the sole technology ?

a fan of your blog from ENSCI-les Ateliers.

PS: I wish you could also come in our design school to talk to us about foresight and innovation…