INNOVATION

Crises generate a lot of energy that, if harnessed constructively, can be a great source of innovation. The  COVID-19  response is producing inspiring innovative responses proving that, indeed, necessity is the mother of invention. What has emerged already and during previous crises provide lessons for our near-term response, but also highlight the underlying and more critical long-term need to better resource and institutionalize strategic innovation in global health. Open innovation, for example, is a proven model that can focus this energy and catalyze problem-solving from anywhere and anyone. My former team at the  USAID  Center for Innovation and Impact led both the   Fighting Ebola  and   Combating Zika and Future Threats  grand challenges during those respective outbreaks. In the heart of the Ebola outbreak, for example, CII and international experts reviewed over 1,500 ideas and quickly supported the development of 14. Twelve o...

People think that innovation is a creative work.It can only occur in the minds of people whose IQ level is very high and impressive. It's not about being intelligent but I think it's a correlation between freedom and innovation. Person having freedom in their mind are the one to innovate in a very better way. It's told that on earth, great minds are born.But, in my consideration , great minds are not born, it is built. Those who think differently are the one to create wonderful things in the world.Mind without tension and without any pressure are the one to give birth to a most amazing creature on earth. Laws, Technology, Electronic gadgets etc, are built now-a-days, it's not just because of the innovation.If your mind is free from all types of indestructible then you are capable of creating the most wonderful gadgets in the universe. Your discovery is not about you, it's about your ability to think. Thinking is possible only when you believe in freedom. Bein...