People often believe that if you simply repeat someone else's words of wisdom you said something profound. Unfortunately, that profoundness was already inherent in the ideas previous discovery and utility. By repeating, what you have done is expanded the meaning and definition of the profound concept but the paradigm of the idea hasn't changed (It exists on the same plane of knowledge). To develop something new, unknown, and unseen means coming up with something undiscovered by constructing ideas based on the history of ideas within that particular field (i.e. that is why all research uses a literary search as a starting point) and beyond that field to create breadth of function.
As one draws knowledge from other fields (scientific fields are connected at the top and that is where profound knowledge occurs when individual discoveries have wider impact through increased application across multiple fields.) it can be increasingly possible to find new ways of doing things that others haven't yet seen.
It should be noted that because of our current education system we are not producing enough PhD's and a sufficient supply of scientists that can produce individual scientific discoveries. In addition, we are also having a hard time applying university based discoveries to "real life" industry for the maximum benefit of society. That problem will become increasingly highlighted if we can't supply American businesses with new solutions (moving to better environments) and workers with skills the market needs (lower wage jobs increase but high paying market leading jobs go overseas).
Statistics on PhDs (2% of population) and STEM fields are dismal (OECD, 2019). The vast majority of society doesn't engage in these fields at this depth thereby limiting discoveries to a very select few of people who have been highly indoctrinated into a specific, albeit. top school way of thinking (Thus, tunnel vision with limited aperture.). Where we once led we must now learn to compete again. See China Comes Close to Passing the U.S. in Doctors, Patents and Scientific Discoveries.
Without a stronger education system that starts young people learning important STEM and "other" scientific fields that moves them into higher education programs and finally out to employers with certain competencies we will have difficult functioning in the Digital Era/Information Age (See Industry Higher-Edu Competency Model as one example of possible alignment changes).
Companies also have a responsibility to work with universities to help fund, support, and test ideas. Universities have the responsibility to groom human capital talent and new ideas for national consumption. Yes...companies willing to try new applications of ideas can contribute to national development while advancing their industries and their own market position (I wonder if it is possible to provide opportunities within a cluster for companies to partner with universities to try new ideas and in turn share those results with other clustered companies who invested in the community for first in options. That might also provide a funding sources through a pooled grant that insulates researchers from individual company interests? 🤔 Each cluster would have university research that supports the development of the cluster a little like the old mining and Calumet Michigan but with much more adaptable diversity with multiple industries. Probably would work. 🤷 I should put something together on it. We have local deep port shipping and a need to attract firms to Delta County and we also have serious unused facilities at KI Airforce Base for more "sensitive" developments. Perhaps the Eagle will come back to its nest? 🦅🌱👀 See Delta County MultiClusters. Kind of working on a Transactional Clusters Model for wider applicability in other industries.)
OECD (2019), Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/f8d7880d-en.
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