Innovation is the practical implementation of new ideas, or of improved goods or services.

Innovation may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Innovation (album), a 2010 album by Pink Lady
  • Innovations (album), a 1985 album by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico

Periodicals

  • Innovation (magazine), a magazine compiling recent developments in the area of research in Singapore and globally
  • Innovation (journal), sociological academic journal about management, innovation and sustainability.
  • Innovations (journal), an academic journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges
  • The Innovation, interdisciplinary science journal published by Cell Press

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Innovation (TV program), a 1984–2004 American television program focusing on innovation that aired on PBS
  • Innovation Comics, a Wheeling, West Virginia-based comic book company active in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Brands and enterprises

  • Innovative Communications Corporation, a telecommunications company in the United States Virgin Islands
  • Innovation Computer, a defunct American computer systems and hardware company
  • Innovative Interfaces, a library-software company
  • L'Innovation Department Store, a former Belgian department store chain, known for the disastrous 1967 L'Innovation Department Store fire
  • NPO Novator (Russian for innovator), a Russian company that designs long-range anti-aircraft missiles

Business terms and technology management

  • Disruptive innovation
  • Eco-innovation
  • Financial innovation, a term used in some discourses on economy
  • Induced innovation
  • Innovation indices
  • Innovation leadership
  • Innovation management
  • Innovation system
  • Open innovation
  • Outcome-Driven Innovation
  • Pace of innovation
  • Product innovation
  • Pro-innovation bias
  • Technological innovation system

Organizations and projects

  • Radical Innovation Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • UNDP Innovation Facility, established by the United Nations Development Programme in 2014

Science and technology

  • Innovation (linguistics), a change in language that distinguishes it from conservative forms
  • Innovation (biology), a change from an ancestor
  • Innovation (signal processing) a concept in statistical signal processing

Other uses

  • Bid‘ah, any type of innovation in Islam
  • Open Innovations (event), an annual forum and technology show that focuses on new technologies and perspectives of the international cooperation on innovations

See also

  • Innovators (disambiguation)