While in principle all ideas are just that, ideas with almost zero monetary value, ideas have a powerful motivatory power. Quoting Carl Jung: "People don't have ideas, ideas have people". That is, an strong idea can posses a person, or a group of people until becoming a reality.
My previous post about the Atom-Innovation Framework discusses at a high level the three constituent particles of that process we call innovation: research, ideation and development, plus a nucleus that holds them together which is made of passion. In this I deep dive into the research particle. Research seems to me a human activity that allows... » read more
This is a deeper question. When we say "we want to innovate", what are the specific things we do to actually innovate?