"Don't think on innovation, think on solving a problem"

"We didn't need a Department of Innovation to achieve the greatest technological achievement in human history: putting a man on the moon. We did create NASA, but its goal was not the vague and distracting mandate to "promote innovation", but to solve a specific set of problems, problems so hard that they demanded a huge amount of innovation."
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Scott Berkun em "Should Obama Create a Department of Innovation?"