# Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

**Published:** August 17, 2026
**Author:** Jason Sparapani | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
**Source:** MIT News — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/q-a-rethinking-how-innovation-happens

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA…

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