Invention & Innovation

Invention and innovation are often confused.

They are lumped together as characters of a bigger story; a story of the battle between the old and the new.

But invention and innovation are distinct things. They require different skillsets and different approaches. Their objectives and outputs are greatly at odds.

Invention is producing something for the first time. It is a single component. A new solution to a technical problem.

Innovation is new way of making a system of technologies consistently work to solve a problem for users. It scales an ability so that it can have market impact.

To realise its potential, an invention must become something that works for everybody who needs it. It must scale.

Innovation is that path to scale.