[NukeMan]

Here is an interesting link: http://www.ideationtriz.com/

I believe the company was founded on old Soviet-era work which showed there was more structure to scientific/engineering innovation than was commonly believed. Of course, this might have been Marxist b*llsh*t (i.e. 'carefully planned and predictable revolutions'), but there is a journal associated with it as well.

[LS]

Well, this was my point, that you can "control" and "drive" SOME innovation, but the genuine breakthroughs never come from leaders in the field (at least, none of the top 50 technological breakthroughs in the U.S. in the 20th century did, according to Burton Klein's rather thick study.)