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Professors at Harvard Business School, Insead, and Brigham Young University studied 3,000 executives and 500 entrepreneurs for six years in order to determine the five secrets of innovation. According to this study, these five skills are necessary: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and discovering. Some key points from the authors of the study:

“What the innovators have in common is that they can put together ideas and information in unique combinations that nobody else has quite put together before.”

“Studies have shown that creativity is close to 80 percent learned and acquired. We found that it’s like exercising your muscles—if you engage in the actions you build the skills.”

“They are able to put together something they hear from a conference they were at last week with a briefing they’re at tomorrow and come up with a new idea.”

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