# Innovation **Domain:** Technology / Creativity / Human Development **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Innovation is the practical introduction of a new or substantially improved idea, method, system, or use that expands available capability.** ## Mechanism and Practice Innovation joins imagination to implementation. It may create a new tool, discover an unexpected use for an existing one, or reorganize a system so that previously inaccessible value becomes available. ## Relationships [[wiki/Invention|Invention]] · [[wiki/Creative Technology|Creative Technology]] · [[wiki/Technological Progress|Technological Progress]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "You know, Bret, I think one thing to really think about is that all civilization wealth — draw the box very big — it all comes from invention. Six thousand years ago, somebody invented the plough. And then the steam engine. We all got wealthier. That cycle has continued. What we want to do is speed that up. Speed up the rate of invention. So use AI to make physical things. We're going to make the tools so easy to use that anyone will be able to be an engineer." > **— Jeff Bezos**, *Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026* [[reminders/Innovation/AI Can Accelerate Invention Until Anyone Can Be an Engineer by Jeff Bezos|AI Can Accelerate Invention Until Anyone Can Be an Engineer by Jeff Bezos]] > "Probably everybody watching this show right now, at some point in your life, you've had an idea for a product or service. You woke up and had an idea. It never left your head. You never built it. The reason you didn't build it is because it's too hard. It's too much work. So it has to be a giant idea and you have to hire people and form a company. What we want to do is make the distance between idea and actual manufacturing so much shorter. So much simpler. When that idea is in your head, you can build it very easily. That's what the tools we're working on. That's what they will accomplish." > **— Jeff Bezos**, *Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026* [[reminders/Innovation/AI Can Shorten the Distance from Idea to Manufacturing by Jeff Bezos|AI Can Shorten the Distance from Idea to Manufacturing by Jeff Bezos]] > "What happens is speculators can lose money because they're investing in all of these things. But the inventions don't disappear when the bubble pops. So if you take the biotech bubble in the '90s, investors lost money, speculators in this new technology. Many of them lost money. The life-saving drugs that were made continued on and saved lives. If you look at all the fiber optic cable that got laid in the internet bubble, thousands of miles of fiber optic cable got laid. Many of the companies that laid that fiber optic cable got into financial trouble and the bubble popped and they went out of business. But the fiber optic cable didn't go away. We're still benefiting from it today." > **— Jeff Bezos**, *Fox News interview with Bret Baier, October 7, 2026* [[reminders/Innovation/Inventions Survive the Bubbles That Finance Them by Jeff Bezos|Inventions Survive the Bubbles That Finance Them by Jeff Bezos]]