Arts of Innovation: Your turn for comments, etc.

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NEW
Innovation
coverage
online

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Tips for success in old age

Sol LeWitt,
finder

Give Ralph Ellison a break

Greatest
women
artists

How Disney Imagineers innovate

Clint Eastwood, seeker
(Feb. 4)

The complex
case of Fernando Botero
(Jan. 21 and 30)

Innovators
in academia
(Jan. 10)

Orson Welles and John Milton!
(Dec. 14)

Major League Baseball
as experimental innovator
(Dec. 13)

Walt Disney
as finder
(Dec. 12)

Inventor Stanford Ovshinsky as aging finder
(Dec. 9)

Morris Louis
as seeker
(Nov. 18)

This Web site’s companion blog is a place where you’re invited to submit comments, suggest other innovators, or tell what type of innovator you are.

Innovator, tell your tale

Visitors to this Web site and its companion blog are welcome to:

Tell your tale of life as a conceptual innovator, if that’s what you are.
Tell your tale of life as an experimental innovator, if that’s what you are.
Tell your tale of innovation, even if you’re unsure which type of innovator you are.

Make other suggestions

Please give feedback about David Galenson’s approach to innovation -- or about the ArtsOfInnovation.com Web site in general. You can also give specific feedback about this site’s informal quiz that’s aimed at helping you determine which type of innovator you are, or suggest ways to improve it.

Suggest other innovators

To keep the dialogue about innovation going, please suggest other innovators in the arts, sciences and business, especially if you can say whether they seem to be conceptual innovators, experimental innovators, or follow patterns of their own. The more specifics and the more sources you can cite, the better. Here’s one visitor’s recent submission to the blog’s “Suggest innovators” page, for example:

From reader Sarah Brodsky:

“Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island at age 33 and A Child’s Garden of Verses at age 35. I think he was conceptual because he is remembered for these few major titles rather than for a body of work. Some of his less-famous novels, like The Black Arrow, are actually pretty bad.”