AWA – Issue – 09 Mar

"It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual."

The origins of innovations, such as new things and ways doing things, are human minds. So it seems safe to say that the individuals are the impetus for innovation. Yet when considering real world situation, this is not quite the true story.

1 There are for sure innovations are accomplished by indivisuals. In area of painting and scuplture, for exmple, artists are the key of innovation. All the inspirations come from the individual who has the image of what he\she is doing in his mind. Not to mention writing, music composition and other alike areas. In science, some of the breakthrough theories are also indivivual works.

2 Yet these fields share some similarities. Fisrt these kinds of work can be possibly accomplished by a single person. What’s more, activities like painting or scientific theory research largely reply on indiviuals’ own inteleual work, not team work.

3 However, there is another level of innovation, which requires far more than a single person’s inspitraion and hard working.

4 Examples, fiction writing v.s. screen writing. Programming v.s software engineering.