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		<title>Innovation Idea, Small Cheap Precise 3D Printer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make 3D fabricators from old floppy drives, CDROM drives DVD drives. Use radial coordinates to convert the points of your 3D print to locations on the platter. All the circuitry, software, and hardware is there for moving the print head and turning on the print nozzle. Only need to add mechanism for vertical motion. Raising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to Start? Always Start With Customers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently taught a short introduction to Predictive Innovation&#174; class for a group of design students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). One of the students listed his biggest problem as, &#8220;not knowing where to start.&#8221; He had a product idea and hundreds of ways to approach it but he didn&#8217;t know how to begin to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compact Fluorescent Bulb Recycling</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2009/01/03/compact-fluorescent-bulb-recycling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I volunteer at AllExperts.com. One of the questions I received makes an interesting example. This is not a complete OutCompete analysis, just a very fast list of suggestions. Question: Retailers have implemented programs for the safe disposal of compact fluorescent bulbs. However the current process requires the involvement of an store employee. I would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revealing Emerging Expectations, the most important step of innovation.</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2008/02/12/revealing-emerging-expectations-the-most-important-step-of-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging expectations are the things customers will start to demand next. These are features, benefits, and values current products are missing but customers haven&#8217;t started demanding yet. When customers realize these desires can be met they will demand it from all future products. It&#8217;s essential to have something ready when that happens or you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Predict Future Innovation</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2006/12/11/how-to-predict-future-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started writing this I titled it &#8220;How to Predict Future Inventions.&#8221; I changed that because inventions don&#8217;t really change the world. People have invented thousands of silly things that didn&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t have caught on. Innovation is more than invention. Innovation is satisfying a need or want. Innovation has a human element [...]]]></description>
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