Innovation,
an Essential Attribute Required In Globalized World-Part-1:
Quality
Required for Students and Professionals of All disciplines
Ramesh M. Gohil
Introduction:
In the world
of globalization, our students, professionals and industrial scientists, engineers
have started facing many challenges for jobs and product competitions, hence problems
created for financial situation. To cope
with this type of situation, extra burden will be imposed on students, parents, schools,
teachers and existing social systems or government. Such situation will soon demand reform in our
education system. In this direction China is moving very fast and reports
suggest that many developing countries lack in this endeavor. We require
innovation in every walk of life and to create culture which value, support
innovation (creativity) and develop a network and mechanism for immediate
implementation.
Innovation
is not new and with this attribute we benefited from Stone Age. Our comforts,
long life, quality of life, rapid knowledge acquiring techniques, etc. are
mainly attributed to innovation and hard work
of innovative individuals.
With time,
our problems have changed ; new demands
we are facing in the areas of
environments, energy sectors, medicines for new type of diseases, agriculture
to resolve food demands, development of
efficient management systems, etc. Innovations in these complex areas
require very specific education and skills. Hence in present days we are facing
acute problems which impose many challenges on us.
I am going
to present series of documents under heading of “Innovation” to cover
followings:
a.
Concept of innovation
and their applications.
b.
Type of innovation observed in nature (in animals,
birds, and other creatures) and how directly or indirectly helped us. How concept of zero, wheels, etc. may have developed.
c.
Beauty of derived innovations, how mother nature could
be so delightful- how imaginary innovation
help business.
d.
Why innovation became complex and became hard to
handle for layman?
Normally the term innovation can be defined as something original
resulting from our out of box thinking and, as consequence, new,
better solutions than one existed, that
"breaks in to" the market , technologies,
processes, remove
services,
products , processes, technologies, government and society.
An
innovative work in a field if applied to totally another field brings great
value to our society. In Stone Age
observations of tricks manifested in birds, animals, insects, etc brought great
advancement in our society.
Section-1:
Paintings made in 18th
Century from observations of animal’s
activities inspired innovative persons to find applications
in recently developed technologies. Work in this area has made huge
business.
A.
Monkeys
forming a chain from overhanging branch (mamamirabelle) .
Picture of monkeys forming a
chain from overhanging branch in order to tease a crocodile. This picture was made by Bocourt from
a sketch made by Mouhot , who
explored forests of Siams, Laos and Lambodia in 18th century and found many
new species of fishes, mammals,
reptiles. Several people have
claimed that they observed
much innovative team behavior of monkeys
and forming chain. True or
not, such innovative picture could start a new business
for amusement of children (see
http://littlekids.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/mamamirabelle/).
Fig. 1
Above
picture was taken from the book of “ Great Explorer” by Roderick Owen, Mayflower Book, New York, 1979. Team Traveled in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia,
and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859 and 1860 .
a.
“The Myth of the Monkey Chain-
unusual way of crossing rivers. ”
Fig. 2
Above picture (Fig. 2) shows long-tailed,
South American monkeys have an unusual way of crossing rivers. Clinging (holding together) to each other, they form their bodies into
a living bridge that stretches between the trees on either side of a river.
Other members of the pack then climb across this 'monkey chain' to reach the
other side.
South
American monkeys form living bridges in order to cross alligator-infested
rivers the idea is curiously long-lived. Jesuit priest José de Acosta published
the first account in Latin in 1589 — here’s a 1604 translation:
“Going
from Nombre de Dios to Panama, I did see in Capira one
of these monkeys leaped from one tree to another, which was on the other side
of a river, making me much to wonder…..” .
Human
Chain Painting:
Fig. 3
Above pictures led to following innovative ideas and
develop big business in many
areas.
Fig. 5
Fig. 5 shows a picture of rescue workers holding hands to
form a human chain during an operation to search for bodies in the Keelung
River in Taipei.
New Video Business for Children’s Amusement - Monkeys forming a chain
from overhanging branches. Such video
business is flourishing.
Fig. 6
Refer
Children videos:
http://littlekids.nationalgeographic.com/littlekids/mamamirabelle/
A
New Jewelry Business
Emerged From Monkeys forming a chain .
Fig. 7
A
New Children Business- Toys , Painting,
etc.
Section-2: Invention of Alphabets on wings of Butterfly
This
example provides how the curiosity and persistence in work achieve
a goal of a man which no one would have undertaken. From this work, Kjell Sandved made millions of dollars.
History:
Back in
1960, a young Norwegian called Kjell
Sandved came to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural
History to conduct research on animal behavior.
One day, Kjell found, inside an old cigar box, a butterfly that had a
perfect letter 'F' on its wing. He was so impressed and spent
much of his life (24 yrs) travelling the world, discovering all 26
'letters' of English alphabet and
numbers in nature, for example on the
wings of butterflies.
Fig. 9
Detailed
View of the alphabets on Butterfly Wings-Is it
Innovation?
Fig.10
From this
innovative findings (Figs. 9- 11), Kjell
Sandved , started a
business of selling calendars of alphabets pictures (shown above) and made money. Several books
are written on this topic.
In this story,
Kjell observed a
letter “F” on a wing
of butterfly. His persistent work showed us that letters are
in nature; pictures we see may be
illusion but emerging shapes are comparable with alphabets. Starting a business reflects
its business value. This is an
innovation as this discovery is original and new that "breaks in
to" the market or into society”. Note
that Newton's law of universal gravitation came in existence when Newton observed falling of
apple from a tree.
Fig. 12
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