An Innovator's Journey from Culture to Construction

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M. Nasser Al-Yemeni, Ms. Fawzia Al-Madhihim, Ms. Ghada Al-Huwaiti

Innovation

This title carries the essence of real experiences in the practice of providing enrichment packages, tools and innovative models that contribute to supporting innovative thinking among innovators and change makers, at a time when everyone realizes the importance of the global shift towards global innovation indicators for countries and individuals.

Government and private organizations continue to work to make a qualitative contribution to building capacities and raising the efficiency of individuals in the field of innovation; to ensure the innovative institutional transformation that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and most international organizations seek.

In fact, the passion of innovators and talents remains one of our most valuable resources that we seek to invest in with integrated efforts from advanced ages, in which creative and innovative confidence appears more widely, as Dr. John Kao, founder of EdgeMakers, defines innovation as (“the innate creativity that exists within every child, waiting to be unleashed”), and (Zhuang, 1995:14) defines it as a dynamic mindset that requires innovative thinking to be one of its inputs to develop new ideas or create new uses for existing products, with the emphasis that innovation must be something better.

Given the multiplicity and scarcity of ideas in developing innovation methodologies and training on them since the age of ten, those working in the field of innovation are working to find a practical model that can be applied flexibly; in an effort to spread scientific innovation skills and tools.

In an innovator’s journey from culture to construction, applied scientific evidence is a strategic solution to support innovation, to lead change makers from innovators to practice and learn innovation from culture to construction.

The starting points of the innovator’s journey from culture to construction were based on analyzing a number of inputs, the most important of which are:

- Global Talent Competitiveness Index*.

- Modern trends and theories in creativity and innovation.

- 21st century skills.

- Actual field practices in building an innovative culture.

- The scarcity of Arabic references that have a scientific and applied character.

It is noted that innovators and change makers must be provided with typical activities and tools, according to studied stations, in which the innovator’s journey begins with the establishment station, which is concerned with spreading the culture of innovation among innovators and change makers, then moves to the expansion station, which includes tools that contribute to providing the innovator with tools and skills that enable him to inspire, generate creative ideas, and design initial drawings, leading him to the ability to produce the idea, analyze it, criticize it, and manage risks in it, to reach his final station to focus, in which the innovative design process takes place, so that all the tools and skills he possesses are reflected in his ability to have creative confidence, and to create competitive prototypes that can be shared and displayed. The mechanism for using this book has been attached to be an applied guide for working on it.