There's a lot of synonyms in the English language. Big - Huge. Small - Tiny. Pretty - Beautiful. What about Innovation - Creativity? Nope, they're different. Think of creativity as the floppy disk drive evolution. First there was the black 5 1/4 inch drive, that was literally floppy. A few years later came the 3 1/2 inch disk, that had a hard plastic shell and a sliding metal plate to protect the 'floppy' disk inside. That's creativity. Bigger storage, Smaller size, More robust. But this evolution wasn't

More than thirteen local Chinese newspapers have published an editorial urging authorities to reform the system of household registration, known as the hukou, that divides China's rural and urban residents. This is a bold move, but one that wouldn't sound so frightening if the word 'reform' was replaced with 'innovation'. 'Reform' is a loaded word, linked to protests, marches and occassional government coup d'état. The hukou household-registration system was adopted in the late 1950s to control

Aparently windmills don't have to spin like the hands on a clock face. QuietRevolution, from the UK, have developed vertical windmills, that are smaller, much quieter, and take advantage of small wind gusts that often come from mulitple directions. This is a great example of innovation through constraint, as discussed by