Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Outdated consequence-management policies might stifle, suppress or negatively impact the employee environment required for creativity, invention or innovation to occur. To evolve in business includes ...

I'm always a little saddened when I see people (young and old) who are unhappy with their current job or position and who spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for the next big idea to occur to ...

What sort of book might Vaclav Smil write if he turned his attention to higher education? Imagine that Smil retained his outline for Invention and Innovation but drew all his examples from the academy ...

Invention harvesting—sometimes also referred to as invention mining, brainstorming, and ideation, among other terms—is a proactive process that involves (1) prompting innovators to conceive of new ...

Having worked at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation for seven years, I see invention and innovation all around me. Before, my ears might not have perked up when a local ...

February 13th, 2023 —The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure, the prolific ...

The purpose of this course is to provide you an introduction to engineering product invention and innovation through a series of projects completed in interdisciplinary teams. This course focuses on ...

Smil (How the World Really Works), a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, takes a thought-provoking look at what “the long trajectory of inventions” suggests about what to expect in the ...

Michael J. Meurer receives funding from the Technology and Policy Research Initiative at BU Law. The current funders are Google.org Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation ...

A recent determination by the U.S. Department of Energy to require that all innovative products derived from federal agency funding must be substantially manufactured in the United States—drafted ...