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TOPIC: ISSUE175 - "It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual."
WORDS: 541          TIME: 0:45:00          DATE: 2007-2-10

Ever since the First Industrial Revolution, science and technology has developed rapidly and humans have placed more and more emphasis on innovation. It, hence, cause some debates and most of them are over the issue: whether true innovation is consequence of an individual or a team. I agree that lots of innovation attributes to individual insofar as many great inventions are worked out by individuals, especially in the past. However, the later it is, the more innovation teams bring about.

Admittedly, individuals have give birth to a lot of innovation in many fields, such as physics, biology, and philosophy. For supporting examples, one need look no further than Newton, a famous physicist in England. Inspired by a falling apple, Newton worked out the principle of kinetics, one of the most significant breakthrough in history of physics, on his own. The same is true of Darwin and his theory of evolution. In order to gain an insight into the origin of beings, Darwin, though he got no support from either governments or institutes, travelled across thousands of places to collect specimen, such as birds, snakes, fish, and some plants, from which he generalized the theory of evolution, bringing a dramatic revolution in both biology and religion. What's more, Aristotle, who was by far the most preeminent philosopher in Greece, by his own chronic observing, founded a systematic philosophy about the logic foundation, upon which all human behavior bases. These examples are used to point out that individuals are excellent enough to work out innovation by themselves, and even some of these innovations give a hand to development of humans.

However, we are able to numerate a large number of innovations worked out by teams. If we cast a look back at the discovery of DNA, it is said that W and C collaborated to find out the structure of DNA, which, however, are more effort of other anonymous scientists like a chemist, who pointed out their mistake in constructing theory, than that of these two persons. In other words, lots of scientific innovation results from panels.

In future, more and more innovation will be attributable to teams. I will follow the reason that a project is more and more complex and requires not individual contemplation but team collaboration. For example, designing a rocket is a function of engineers, scientists, managers and other workers. Particularly, engineers worked out the blueprint; scientists support with theory; and managers regulate the process. Without any of them, the rocket will come to no fruition. Another reason for this is that the trend of modern society is specialization and everyone concentrates his or her attention and effort on a special field, which in turn, an integral picture of the world will come out. Take biophysics, which is neither physics nor biology, as an example. With the help of analogy and analysis, either physicists or biologists gains an insight into each other's fields, and work out a new field called biophysics , combination knowledge of both physics and biology. In short, complex innovation is resulting from more team work than individuals.

To sum up, both individuals and teams contribute to innovations. As time and tide goes, teams will play more and more important roles.