How can we all innovate like Faraday? Find out with David Ricketts. You'll also learn about the history and the future of innovation, including emerging applications of electric motors to replace jet aeroplane motors, self-flying cars and more.

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On 3 September 1821, Michael Faraday invented the electric motor. This invention took him just one day, and it has since revolutionised our world.

What was Faraday's innovative process? And how can we learn to innovate from Faraday's work?

In true Ri tradition, this talk will illustrate Faraday's innovation process through multiple demonstrations, including those done by Faraday himself, alongside new ones that reveal the inner workings of Faraday's innovative process.

This lecture was filmed on 26 July 2022

0:00 Introduction
2:34 The story of Michael Faraday
6:18 The zeitgeist of the 1820s
13:32 Faraday entering the electromagnetic landscape
20:09 Why are new ideas hard?
24:08 Faraday's reframing of the problem
29:31 Building prototypes
35:57 The electric motor
45:18 The generation of electricity
51:13 Demonstrating the Earth's magnetic field

David Ricketts is an Innovation Fellow in the Technology and Entrepreneurship Centre at Harvard University. He works with organisations around the globe, such as Mastercard, Ubisoft, Disney, General Motors, Dell and Ferrari to accelerate innovation.

David is also an accomplished academic, having his work appear twice in Nature as well as other distinguished publications and books. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation (US) CAREER award and the DARPA Young Faculty Award for his work on nano-electromagnetic devices. His innovations include a re-programmable, self-assembling matter, an American football tracking for sports visualisation with Disney/ESPN, and an advanced wireless power systems for next generation cars with General Motors Research.

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