Project and Program Management by Mitchell L. Springer

Author:Mitchell L. Springer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Purdue University Press

Further, if innovation has at its core a consistent or semi-consistent series of interrelated activities over time, then those series of time-phased, interrelated activities form a process. This proposition, then, is that innovation is a process with a series of time-phased, interrelated activities, where each activity produces an attendant product. As such, innovation can be researched, taught, assimilated, and subsequently reapplied.

If, as defined, innovation is a process, then technological innovation may be dependent on the underlying foundations of engineering and science, but not necessarily those evolved entirely from the U.S. Inductively, advancing the U.S. position in technological innovation can most generally occur through world advancements in our understanding of underlying disciplines, regardless of country origin. Our grand challenge, then, is to adequately prepare our citizens for technological innovation, not necessarily through predominance in science and engineering education, but more applicably, through studies in technology and the technological innovation process. Creating a more understanding and intelligent workforce in technological innovation that is premised on use-inspired and applied findings would promote the creation and maintenance of a technologically advanced nation.

This does not imply science and engineering is less important to the advancement of a society. This does imply technology is a discipline with an attendant innovation process that is not dependent on where the underlying body of science and engineering comes from. And, if properly trained as technologists, any society will be poised for economic growth as products and services become more pronounced. To this end, we should welcome the growing world collective intelligence, while at the same time train our future technology leaders on how to capitalize on our internationally available collective knowledge through the study of technology as a discipline and the study of innovation as a process.

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