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Profs & Pints: Innovation, from Stone to Silicon
The Bier Baron Tavern
Washington, DC
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Profs & Pints: Innovation, from Stone to Silicon
Profs and Pints presents: Innovation, from Stone to Silicon, a brief history, with Lawrence Husick, lecturer at Johns Hopkins Universitys Whiting Graduate School of Engineering, chemist, patent attorney, hacker and entrepreneur.

Innovation is a hot commodity, with seemingly every company, elected official, employee, and organization out there either striving to be innovative or claiming they already deserve the label to anyone who will listen. The problem is that few can answer basic questions about innovation such as: How do you do it? How can you recognize it? Why is it worth doing?

Although we apply the term innovation to some new thing that someone has developed--the better mousetrap that's been built--innovation is much more than gizmos. It's also a process, a way to bring about change by introducing valuable new methods, ideas, or products. Its coming up with different ways of thinking and doing. Innovations may be beliefs, organizational methods, and discoveries. Innovation is the creation of value. And despite the stereotype of the innovator as a tireless tinkerer, the impulse that spawns innovation is laziness. It arises from our desire to extract more value from our time and from things around us. It's how we've managed to get away from long days of hunting and gathering and generate economic surpluses. It's often been a way to spend more time in bed or on the couch.

Come learn about innovationand the surprising lives of some of our lazy inventive heroesfrom Lawrence Husick, whose job titles also include Co-Director of the Program on Teaching Innovation at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Wachman Center. He'll tackle a tough-but-fun question: What are the 25 most important innovations in history, ranked in order? You'll be welcome to chime in with your own ideas, as independent thinking is a big part of what this talk is about. You might not leave able to build a better mousetrap, but you'll gain appreciation of those who did.

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The Bier Baron Tavern (View)
1523 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States
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Education > Classes
Other > Technology

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Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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On BPT Since: Sep 27, 2017
 
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