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Conceptual Thinking and Creative Note Taking

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 at the...

Disruptive Innovation Creates Opportunity

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...

Mothers of Invention Grants

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, even though fewer than 15% of all patent holders in the world to this day are women. But Toyota is doing its part to help draw attention to women innovators and women inventors at the fourth annual Women in the World...

Woman Inventor – Josephine Cochran

If you're like most people, washing dishes is a chore. Okay, maybe it's just me. But back in 1886 a woman inventor named Josephine Cochran thought the same thing. Technically Joel Houghton patented a dish washing machine, but it was a wooden machine that just splashed...

How Creative Entrepreneurs Can Be More Productive

Since creative entrepreneurs don't punch a time clock or have a boss standing behind them making them work, they have to be their own boss and learn to be more productive on their own.   Here are some ways creative entrepreneurs can be more productive:  ...

Women Inventors – Tabitha Babbitt

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 a girlie...

Inventors Spotlight – Woman Inventor – Ruth Handler

Ruth Handler's claim to fame as a woman inventor and woman innovator is that she invented the Barbie Doll. But Ruth's resume was much bigger than that. She started off in 1945 as the co-founder of the toy company Mattel, which made toy furniture, music boxes, plastic...

A Week of Creativity and Innovation

Every year fifty countries around the world take one week to celebrate world creativity and innovation week. This takes place between April 15th through April 21st in communities and organizations who want to think differently.   World creativity and innovation...

Inventors Spotlight – Women Inventors – Marjorie Joyner

Since March is Women's History Month, we'll be highlighting women inventors and women innovators who deserve their place in history. In 1928 it was hard enough for a woman to get a job, but for African Americans the unemployment number was twice as high. But one black...