http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/innovationsurvey/index spiked/Pfizer survey of opinion formers on the great innovations in their fields en Copyright 2007 2007-05-15T07:59:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3361/ I've often wondered if the scientists responsible for the transistor had even begun to imagine the scale and influence of the electronics industry that their breakthrough would spawn. 2007-05-15T07:59:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3360/ Bookstart, established 1992, the amazing books for babies scheme which stimulates parental bonding and a love of books. 2007-05-15T07:54:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3310/ The greatest innovation was Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection; that is, species can change as the environment does. 2007-04-30T06:44:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3309/ Every invention is simply a locus in a syncytium of innovations... 2007-04-30T06:39:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3308/ - 2007-04-30T06:36:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3307/ The single most empowering innovation in my immediate field of work is probably the humble PC spreadsheet. 2007-04-30T06:35:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3306/ The greatest innovation in my field was the infodump, otherwise known as the expository lump... 2007-04-30T06:33:01+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3305/ The ‘cognitive revolution’: researchers peered inside the black box and attempted to describe the mental structures and processes that are - or give rise to - thoughts as well as behaviours. 2007-04-30T06:29:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3304/ Seeing nature at all levels as dynamic and changing, as consisting only of processes and events rather than of things with eternally definable properties. 2007-04-30T06:14:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3303/ The lens is integral to the telescope, the microscope, the camera, and almost every optical instrument you can name. 2007-04-30T06:08:01+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3302/ The greatest innovation in my field, forecasting and innovation, was probably made by Karl Marx: he knew that human agency was infinitely more powerful than fate. 2007-04-30T06:04:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3301/ The microscope was the greatest innovation for cell and developmental biology. Without it cells would not have been discovered 2007-04-30T06:01:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3300/ It was when I first saw a primitive rapid prototyping device on BBC's Tomorrow's World in the early 80s, that I realised that this was the future 2007-04-30T05:57:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3299/ The greatest innovation in physics, and I think in all of science, was the discovery that important behaviour of natural objects can be described with mathematical precision 2007-04-30T05:54:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/innovationsurvey/article/3298/ The greatest innovation in ecology is the concept of the niche, as developed by Evelyn Hutchinson in the late 1950’s 2007-04-30T05:52:01+00:00