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by memexy 2194 days ago
Good question. Do you have a definition we can work with? I tend to focus on theoretical innovations like mathematical theories so my definition is often at odds with what most people think is innovative.
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Often innovation is in the eye of the beholder, for a clerk that's been manually entering data for years it might be innovative that it can be replaced with digitalization but for most researchers that's just "implementation" of existing tech.

I don't hold opinions on what the word should mean, just curious to find all the different meanings of it

Innovation is also applying existing concepts in new scenarios.