Nickname: axped

Review: I am an inspiring young inventor seeking funding for what I consider to be an innovation on old technology. I have a set of auto engine engineering plans that will allow a vehicle to run off of purified water for 400000 miles without major vehicle maintenance. I beg for a manufacturer or investor to at least look at the raw plans and help me move forward with this innovation.

Date reviewed: Jun 26, 2008 12:36 PM

Nickname: Kerm

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Date reviewed: Nov 8, 2007 6:47 AM

Nickname: Kerm

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Date reviewed: Nov 8, 2007 6:43 AM

Nickname: sud

Review: What innovations are done by china? Can you give examples?

Date reviewed: Sep 12, 2007 10:52 AM

Nickname: debwriter

Review: This is an interesting article for many in my industry (marketing design), as we are responsible for helping companies bring inventions and new products to market. What we face as marketers is trying to help clients shift from the 20th to the 21st century mindset and learn to look first at customer needs. Instead, companies invent products first, then try to find someone to sell them to. I can't speak to the Asian innovation trend, but what I understand from my reading is that the Far East seems more open to altering not just what they do, but how they do it, than the Western business community. We are too vested in our corporate bureacracies and established processes. We have lost what we once thought of as our "can do" attitude. No amount of R&D investment can replace the will to just find a way. In the US, it is still all about the bottom line. If innovation-led companies can show they can change their approach and make money, others will follow.

Date reviewed: Jan 29, 2007 6:00 PM

Nickname: sambitdash

Review: I think this article is a very useful article. There are two aspects to the whole process of technology edge. 1. Innovations which are incremental 2. Radical inventions. The US government and industries need to strike that balance. Lots of fundamental research can be sponsored by the government in educational labs or open source the commons domain. Industry can use the commons to build an incremental innovation which is the next line of productization or technology. These are like the yin and yang that need to go hand in hand. The US government needs to create a stronger research community which has been declining over the years. With current fiscal deficits, how much the US government achieve will be something to look at. In fact a good example of this will be England (UK). Although it was the inventor's paradise during the industrial revolution it could not hold this process of invention much longer post colonization era and has affected its economy to a great extent.

Date reviewed: May 6, 2006 8:46 PM

Nickname: csven

Review: "I clearly don't understand being an industrial designer..." As an industrial designer, I find this comment belittling to the profession. If you have a problem understanding what's being said, please own that inability instead of excusing it in this manner. As to the article, skipping the part where the East is being "innovative" (I tend to agree with some of the comments taking that part to task), I do at least agree that the mindset in the West needs to change (in fact I recently pointed to exactly this same issue in something I wrote). How bad things have to get before the mold breaks is anyone's guess (by the way, there's a pun in that line).

Date reviewed: Mar 2, 2006 10:55 PM

Nickname: gregolsen

Review: There is a lot in this article. I clearly don't understand being an industrial designer and not a business guru--different vocabularies. But I think it misses out on the fact that the biggest Chinese strategy for gaining markets is exploitation of people and the environment--not use of innovative business practices.

Date reviewed: Feb 23, 2006 7:04 PM

Nickname: entropy

Review: Both these authors must be sharing a single brain cell to come to the conclusion that CEOs have to "buy a flight ticket to China" instead of worrying about R&D and funding from the government. May I beg the authors to provide one management/business "innovation" that has been pioneered by the Indians (still almost entirely reliant on cheap labor) and Chinese(intellectual piracy and central subsidizing). I have been in India for a significant time and trust me, the biggest weapon they have is the defeatist attitude of the Western "thought leaders" like these authors. After all, business process innovation is not a new thing and has been going on for a long time. Read the Indian leaders harping endlessly about the lack of sustained research and development in basic science and technology and how it has started showing it's toll on areas crucial for sustained economic development like biosciences and engineering, as well as logistics and industrial efficiency.

Date reviewed: Feb 20, 2006 3:44 AM

Nickname: Alex Osterwalder

Review: I can really feel that difference that Hagel and Brown are talking about because I am living in Thailand and am in contact with many Chinese and Indians. However, I don't think "Westerners" are performing so badly if I look at how design methods are becoming more popular in business circles. Design is essentially about innovating in processes, management, and products, while focusing on customers, complex problems and rapid prototyping. Yet, it remains to be seen how popular this type of innovation becomes for a large "Western" business public. With my work on business model design and innovation I have already been able to attract some businesses.

Date reviewed: Feb 19, 2006 7:34 AM