Innovention – the process of innovation and invention
Invention is the process of unlocking things that nature knows but we haven’t found yet. Innovation is the process of carefully identifying a problem space and then applying technologies from possibly widely disparate fields to solve it (or them). There are three sources of innovation: a need, a dissatisfaction, or a curiosity. A full year course on the methodologies and ways of bringing them to fruition has been prepared and is being taught at the Wharton School of Business. A critical part of this is what we are calling a cognitive prosthesis. Specific examples from research and development, from marketing, from manufacturing, and from everyday home life will be given. Utilization of the methodologies by children will illustrate how much of the world is ignored by people who are too close to a problem or know too much about it.
Speaker Details
David Pensak is a senior fellow at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in his career, he spent three decades at E.I. DuPont de Nemours, serving as research chemist, research group leader, research supervisor, senior research fellow and principal consultant, and corporate technology growth champion, providing guidance for and managing advanced computer-technology explorations and development. A graduate of Princeton University with masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, he has more than 20 years of experience in computer security and more than 30 years of experience in scientific computing and visualization. He also has acted as an adviser for the U.S. Department of Energy on Computer Security and Network Protection, the Clinton Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. From 1991-’95, he served as director of the National Computer Graphics Association. Pensak also is director and founder of Raptor Systems, director and founder of Authentica, and founder and chief technology officer of VI Laboratories.
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- Speakers:
- David Pensak
- Affiliation:
- Founder of Raptor, Authentica, and Vi Labs, Wharton School of Business
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Jeff Running
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