SPEAKER:	William D. (Don) Hewson Industrial Liaison, University of Western Ontario Research & Development Park, Sarnia-Lambton Campus
TITLE:	Anatomy of Innovation
DATE:	March 3, 2011
TIME:	10:30 am
PLACE:	JHE 326H

ABSTRACT

This is a fun presentation looking at the innovation cycle.  The objectives are to stimulate thought about the innovation process, review the fundamentals of technology diffusion in society, make knowledge of innovation personally useful, and create “Sigmoidal Thinking” as a practice.  Sigmoidal thinking is the ability to judge where an idea or activity is in the innovation cycle.  All these objectives are illustrated with easy and memorable examples.    If the presentation succeeds, you will be convinced that innovation is so inherent in the activities of human kind that perhaps we should be taxonomically known as “homo innovatus”.