Time for innovation

Managing innovation - creating value from ideas

Send us a textTime plays a surprisingly important role in innovation, both as an enabler and as a shaper of the process and its outcomes. For example, the early development of reliable timepieces allowed accurate navigation which opened up the possibilities of global trade; without that the whole Industrial Revolution might have been a much smaller affair because the 'workshop of the world' would only have been able to trade in local markets.Or the role played by time-and-motion studie...