Innovation Meaning

What Does Innovation  Mean?

Innovation involves imagining a new, high utility and non obvious way that people and organizations can do the things, that they do every day, in a faster, safer, more efficient, or cheaper way. Patent your idea. I recently bought one independent claim filing for $10,000, U.S. dollars.

Innovation means that as the USA economy opens the doorways to small scale, entrepreneurship solutions delivered to market. Learn about 3D printing because you will use it for printing up a prototype of your invention. Look into makerspaces as places to learn how to make prototypes, by brains on and hands on learning.

Create a co-operative with like minded people to help you further your invention. Newland Cooperative of Minnesota Newland Coop seeks to host idea people inside co-operative incubators where they can meet time investors with the requisite skills to help out getting the idea off the ground. Social media is powerful.

Everybody shares in downstream idea income so they each get repaid for their time investment, based upon their overall level of involvement. Checkout my blog for additional information. LynoMN at blogspot.

Rural Innovation

Rural area innovation depends upon the local context. Best areas of innovation meet local needs concerning land ownership, water supply, waste removal and recycling, available natural resources, supplies, local sales markets, transportation, remote sales markets, storage, vendor services available and needed, the labor market, the capital market, banking, and a myriad more.

Wisconsin Farm

The humans of a rural geographic polygon hold interests in common. Consider the application of the cooperative business model within a rural area. The book “Newland 2084” covers the application of co-operatives to human problems like solving poverty.

Why choose the co-operative business model? It offers many advantages and capabilities.

1. Money and money management. The co-operative business model is the best way to handle money and money management. Every member gets a vote on money matters overseen by the treasurer. The money flow is made transparent to the members which reduces the risk of corruption
2. Time and time management. There is cooperative business to be done that demands human time. The pool of available human time is the cooperatives greatest resource and it needs to be managed well. The time accounting records are made transparent to the members which encourages honesty and fairness.
3. Facilities and equipment. The co-operative may provide shared facilities and equipment to its members. Financing of facilities and equipment becomes a shared responsibility.
4. Supplies and products. Co-operative members must decide on and manage suppliers and vendors. Products must be delivered to market and sold to customers.
5. Social media expertise helps in handling procurement, sales, public relations, and fund raising activities.

In all of these areas and more, the social community that emerges in a co-operative demonstrates to all concerned that nobody has to go it alone.

Carbon Gasification

Big picture goals for human civilization upon earth include how we handle carbon. How much carbon do we bring to the earth’s surface? Where do we stash carbon when it is not in the atmosphere? These are decent questions. Intellectual spins to the contrary the truth is simple to understand.

To remove CO2 from the atmosphere plant trees. BTU is the measure of energy. The USA uses about 100 quadrillion BTUs of energy from carbon resources every year. The best place to sequester excess carbon is in plastic. Gather up CO2 and feed it to methanogen bacteria. Produce methane. 

If you want to do the most that you can for a rural area, it would be to install carbon gasification capabilities for breaking carbon sources down  into individual carbon atoms and then recombining them into fuels, polymers, and plastics. The ash remaining from the final carbon extraction process is fine grained ash useful in ceramics and cement.

Build a carbon gasification campus for a community of 12,000 humans. Produce product dimethyl ether DME and watch the boutique cooperative industries that will emerge around polymers. Local community supplies of sticky polymers to glue stuff together and create beautiful composites. DME burns as clean diesel. As the final form of the carbon atom flow onto the earth’s surface consider the value of plastics to USA society.

Besides is utility value, plastic serves as the ultimate sequestration sink of carbon. The carbon is easily recovered by using gasification back to DME. This creates a local community closed cycle carbon flow system.

Back to planet earth and what is innovative in rural areas. Get some skilled idea people together in a co-operative. Put them to the task of imagining a rural area connected to the internet with local idea people, innovators and entrepreneurs, figuring out how to build a boutique plastics industry around the polymer and plastic output of carbon gasification and participation in the DME economy.