Accidental innovations

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Think Tank Methods

Think tanks are a group of people who read, discuss, think, and write, to address an issue or problem. According to Hernandez(2018), “Think tanks are a group of people that review the literature, discuss the literature, think about ideas, do tons of research, write, provide ideas, legitimize ideas, advocate, lobby, and arguing about addressing problems. Innovation should be a constant business priority. There are two types of think tank models, one roof model where everyone gathers in one physical place to meet face-to-face or the without walls model where members only communicate through technological means” (Hernandez,2018).

Innovations are new ideas that are executed to create and generate values. We face lots of challenges in life every day and based on the challenges, and people try to come up with new ideas to solve the problem and innovate something new to make things easier and creative. The innovation is very critical in the modern world, which addresses customer needs. The famous proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention,” which is the driving force for most new inventions, is a need. But some products we use today came from an error or accident in the invention. According to Greenwald (2018), below are the few life-changing products that were accidental inventions. 

The Microwave Oven

Penicillin

The X-ray Machine

Super Glue

The Implantable Pacemaker

Potato Chips

Teflon

Matchboxes

Quinine anti-malarial drug

Dry Cleaning

The Safety Pin

Bubble Wrap (Greenwald,2018)

Penicillin

Penicillin is the first naturally occurring antibiotic drug discovered in 1928 and the most widely used antibiotic in the world. According to Kalvaitis(2008), Alexander Fleming, often described as a careless lab technician, left a pile of dirty Petri dishes stacked up at his workstation before he left town for holidays. When he returned from holiday on September 3, 1928, he discovered that most staphylococcus culture had been contaminated. He noticed that the staphylococcus culture prevented the growth of staphylococci, and found the penicillin that changed the course of medicine and has enabled physicians to treat severe and life-threatening illnesses. Fleming dumped most of the dishes in a vat of Lysol, and he got to a dish containing staphylococcus. The dish was covered in bacteria except in one area, which had blocked the bacteria from spreading. Fleming stopped studying penicillin after the accidental invention, but researchers at the University of Oxford continued and finished penicillin for use as a medicine (Kalvaitis,2018).

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References

Boer, J. (2015). What are Think Tanks Good for? Retrieved from https://cpr.unu.edu/what-are-think-tanks-good-for.html

Future Innovations in Technology(2020). Retrieved from https://gsctuonline.blogspot.com/

Greenwald, M.(2018). 30 Life-changing inventions that were totally accidental. Retrieved from https://bestlifeonline.com/accidental-inventions/

Hernandez. M. (2018). Think Tank Methods. Retrieved from https://mkhernandez.wordpress.com/ 2018/01/13/think-tank-methods/

Kalvaitis, K.(2008). Penicillin: An accidental discovery changed the course of medicine. Retrieved from https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20120325/penicillin-an-accidental-discovery-changed-the-course-of-medicine

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