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Khan Academy: Why the Private Sector Under Invests in Innovation
Read about how private companies tend to invest less than they should in innovation. (Hint: it's because many of the benefits are external).
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Khan Academy: Positive Externalities of Innovation
Innovation often benefits many people, not just the person or company that innovated.
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Universities Canada: The Future Is Interdisciplinary
In the past 20 years, interdisciplinary research studies involving researchers from multiple academic disciplines has gone from 'nice to have' to 'need to have.' Today, given the complexity of social, political, environmental, economic...
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Global Surgical Training Challenge: How Multidisciplinary Approach Leads to Successful Innovation Projects
To include a designer with no healthcare experience in a medical device project might not make so much sense at first. An artist may feel out of place among the engineers, business experts or medical specialists. But, in fact, it's a...
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Innovation News Network: Sustainable Innovation and the Role of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Florent Allais from AgroParisTech speaks about the importance of combining biotechnologies, green chemistry, and downstream processes when fostering sustainable innovation. This is an example of the very real benefits of...
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Mind Maps
This page includes useful background information about Mind Mapping, as well as a video explanation of it by Tony Buzan. Additional resources are provided as well.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: My Robot and Me
In this activity pupils are asked to come up with ways a robot could help them. They are then required to write a humorous story about that robot and present it to the class. This activity encourages students to be creative while also...