Innovation

Only by generating improved business and consumer confidences will there be a willingness to open wallets and make investments in productive enterprise.

Business Insider details the most remarkable advances in the field of science – and the people behind them.

How many times do we solve a problem and even implement a solution, only to then realise that had we asked a better question we might have come up with a much better solution?

It takes a different type of thinking to come up with the most innovative ideas.

What is the risk-mitigation strategy for really novel ideas?

So often we think innovation is coming up with a bright new idea that no one else has thought of before.

Innovation involves ‘trial and error’ and, by definition, failure. If this is not tolerated then people are less likely to tackle big, new projects.

India's Tata Motors is pushing the technology forward, inch by inch, with its project to build 'Airpods' – zero-pollution, cute-as-a-bug smartcars that zip along at 60kmh via the magic of squeezed air.

Australia cannot compete on cost when it comes to regional employment. We need to compete on energy, ideas and innovation.

We've all been there: you finally carve out the time to work on a big creative project and then you choke.