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...
by Julie Austin | Mar 22, 2014 | inventions
I’ve heard too many times that women inventors tend to invent “girlie” things. Sometimes that might be true, but not always. Take the case of the shy and quiet inventor Tabitha Babbitt, who invented the circular saw, which is certainly far from being...
by Julie Austin | Mar 16, 2014 | Inventing
Woman Invented Barbie Ruth Handler’s story as a groundbreaking woman inventor and woman innovator has always fascinated me. Sure, most people know her as the genius behind the Barbie doll, but her life was packed with so much more ambition, grit, and real-world...
