Inspiring innovation
UD National Academy of Inventors Fellows discuss the creative spirit, lessons learned
According to Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1937 for his study of vitamin c and cell respiration, âInnovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.â
Most of the time, innovators do not know if their ideas will pan out. A lot of the time they donât. When failure occurs, inventors step back, reconsider and regroup, then keep pursuing their ideas, incorporating lessons learned along the way in order to pivot or start anew.