About innovation
This engaging video conveys key aspects of innovation for students. It explores the meaning and the process of innovation, why it’s important for New Zealand and how skills and attitudes needed for an innovative society can be fostered from a young age.
Transcript
MEREMAIHI Innovation. It’s a word that we hear a lot today. What’s it all about?
SOL Innovation can be hard to explain as it’s used by a lot of people to describe a lot of different things.
HOLLY Is innovation only about big changes – or could it be about small steps?
MEREMAIHI Is it just about new ideas – or can it be about improved ideas?
SOL Is it about different ways of doing things – or is it only about new products?
HOLLY So do different innovations have anything in common?
MEREMAIHI All innovation involves change.
SOL It’s about creating value for people by solving a problem or meeting a need.
HOLLY Through coming up with new ideas or new ways of doing things.
MEREMAIHI Or by making improvements to something that already exists.
HOLLY Innovation is an activity that begins with an idea.
It might result in a product that you sell or in a new way of doing something.
However, all innovation needs to create value for people. Otherwise, it’s not innovation, it’s just an idea.
SOL All innovation involves a process.
Most innovation involves these steps.
Coming up with ideas.
HOLLY Choosing and developing the idea.
MEREMAIHI Researching, developing and testing.
SOL Convincing others.
HOLLY Seeing your idea being used or adopted by others .
SOL This makes it sound easy, but sometimes some steps take longer than you planned or you need to repeat them or even start again.
HOLLY There are lots of different kinds of innovation. Different types of people are innovators too.
MEREMAIHI Each innovation process involves a unique range of people – people with different personalities like leaders, followers, risk-takers, doers, planners.
Also people with different knowledge and skills, like scientists, engineers, technologists, manufacturers, marketing experts and lawyers.
SOL All these people might not even be in the same place at the same time.
HOLLY So why do we need innovation?
MEREMAIHI To make the most of opportunities to develop new ways of doing things in a changing world.
SOL To solve the problems we face now and in the future to keep New Zealand moving forward.
HOLLY Innovation can benefit all New Zealanders.
EDUCATOR Best of all, the skills, attitudes and values needed for an innovative society can be fostered from a young age through formal and informal learning opportunities.
Creating an innovative society starts in the classroom.
Creating innovators can start here!
Acknowledgements Meremaihi Jackson Sol Maxwell Holly Clout Moana Ete
anim8a Hutt Intermediate School
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Additional footage from ‘Created Here’ courtesy of NZTE
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