Identifier: belltelephone6667mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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The Innovation Process Innovation is not a simple action, but atotal process of interrelated parts. It isnot just the discovery of new phenome-na, nor the development of a new prod-uct or manufacturing technique, nor thecreation of a new market. Rather, theprocess is all these things acting to-gether in an integrated way toward acommon industrial goal. In earlier times, these specializedacts took place at widely separatedtimes and places. Offtimes the acts andtheir couplings were random-like and itwas difficult to see them as related partsof a total process. In the past, only asmall amount of our technology wasscience based. Even today, not all of ourtechnology comes from research nor isall research directly relevant to indus-trial goals. We are learning that technological in-novation is a process for better couplingof industrial goals to relevant research.As a process it is complex but clearlystructured from basic specializationscoupled together tlirough a common pur-pose. By paying

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