by Julie Austin | Jun 29, 2014 | Innovation
The innovation industry, like any other industry, is full of buzz words. People like to latch on to the latest academic sounding terms and have lengthy discussions about them. This all sounds impressive, but the bottom line is “what is your company doing about...
by Julie Austin | May 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Anyone who has seen my office and the piles of hand-written notes on legal pads, in the backs of books, on scraps of paper and napkins, and on various Post-it notes stuck to the wall would probably label me a bit kooky. So, I’m glad to hear that a recent study...
by Julie Austin | Apr 8, 2014 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Disruptive innovation is innovation that disrupts an existing market and creates a new one. All industries are subject to change. And people will hang on to the status quo as long as possible. Society in general often feels threatened by the disruption of the status...
by Julie Austin | Apr 5, 2014 | Innovation
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention You hear people say necessity is the mother of invention all the time. Yet today fewer than fifteen percent of patent holders worldwide are women. Fewer than four percent are sole patent holders like myself. That gap shows how much...
by Julie Austin | Mar 28, 2014 | Inventing
You know that feeling when you stare at a sink full of dirty plates after a big meal. Most folks dread it. I sure do. Back in 1886 a remarkable woman inventor named Josephine Garis Cochran felt exactly the same way. She turned her frustration into one of the most...
