Talk:Innovation

The Innovation Page

Can this page be edited or is it locked? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.29.193.176 (talk) 18:43, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Can no one else see that this page is very poorly written. If the page is going to be only about innovation in business the name of the page should be changed. My edit of the of the introduction was to begin to create a balanced article in which innovation in business would be a sub heading and the entire article would no longer be written about the economics innovation.

The introduction should broadly introduce the topic. - and there need not be a mention of economics -- for that see economics of innovation section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polarfire (talk • contribs) 06:56, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

My concern is that the edits are piecemeal and unattributed. They are also very personal. I have been deterred from contributing by the defensive nature of edits. It needs a range of innovations and a list of the most significant concepts and authors within the subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.76.183 (talk) 15:58, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

It is very bizarre that you should suggest that there is no need to mention economics - innovation is an economics concept. This article should bring together a summary of different approaches, and then allow for larger articles on things like Management of Innovation, Innovation Theory, Innovation Policy, Economics of Innovation, Sociology of Innovation etc (talk) 4 Feb 2010 (UTC)

Innovation is very hard to identify and quantify. Even legal scholars, rarely at a loss for words, have difficulty dealing with it. I don't doubt that this page is going to go through a lot of revision before it even gets close to being adequate. And don't forget that there are many who hold diametrically opposing viewpoints on topics such as this. In those cases the best that can be achieved is a compromise, at worst an edit war. Discussions concerning innovation often take on the characteristics of arguments during the middle ages about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Hi I'm doing a project for ARCH 342 and I noticed that the definition of innovation provided by this page is vague and different from the dictionary's definitions. - Chen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.22.4 (talk) 19:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I propose a major overhaul of this page that fits for encyclopedic coverage (concise, easy to read sections, and removal of unsubstantiated claims and too many quotes). What I propose includes a brief beginning paragraph, and the following sections: Term (history, apart from invention and creativity), Inter-Disciplinary Approach (in business, government, society, and real-world examples), Process (subsections: sources of innovation, goals/failures, diffusion, market outcome), Measuring Innovation, Government Policies, and the usual: See Also, References, External Links. -Socipoet (talk) 17:14, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Great work, thanks a lot! --Fama Clamosa (talk) 23:00, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Management of Innovation, Innovation Theory, Innovation Policy, Economics of Innovation, Sociology of Innovation are not appropriate Wikipedia article titles. Instead, they should be Management of innovation, Innovation theory, Innovation policy, Economics of innovation, and Sociology of innovation. See WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, this page kicks off with a poor and rather limited intro paragraph, and continues in a scrappy way. Perhaps less would be more here? Looking at the various dictionary entries, a better definition might be something like: 'Innovation is the process of inventing and beginning to implement, new ideas, methods and things'. Some kind of broad definition like this would at least embrace artistic and social innovation. It may be too complex a topic at this stage – there are clearly utterly diverse perspectives at work. For example: while there is a need to mention economics somewhere under innovation, many would disagree that innovation is just an economics concept - it also has psychological, social, anthropological, evolutionary and creative dimensions. No point in a turf war, or a long debate, or an editing battle; people will just abandon the page and drift away. As it stands, unlike some excellent pages elsewhere, I would not direct students to this particular Wikipedia topic --kscally 17:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Bot archive

I suggest this talk page should be automatically archived by a bot according to the follow template:
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}} This will automatically archive all inactive threads older than 125 days and keep at least seven threads on the page. Any objections? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 23:07, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Y Done --Fama Clamosa (talk) 10:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Link request

Dear creator of this page, I have a good book related to Innovation, can I place it under external link, please? Jesslynn lee86 (talk) 03:15, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

N Not done Linking to sites that sell books, however relevant to the subject, is against WP:ELNO ("sites that require payment or registration to view the relevant content", "individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services"). --McGeddon (talk) 09:11, 1 August 2011 (UTC)