The Roots of Efforts to Innovate

"Innovation" is an innovation -- it's a new thing that loads of people think it's important and something we should pay attention to. The Chief Innovation Officer is the most recent addition to the CxO suite.

Someone other than me should write a history of "innovation," fully explaining how we got to where we are with it. I've contributed two or maybe even three cents to the effort. I'd like to go back a century or so and explore some of the fertile soil out of which modern "innovation" grew.