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March 19, 2013

What Is Innovation?

Whether it happens among students in a classroom, or engineers in a laboratory, innovation is a process, a series of steps that begins with imagination, and results in the creation of something of value for society.

Credit: NBCLearn, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office


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