The 14 vignettes that this special issue presents provide valuable insights into how you can develop innovative products, and they touch on the changing nature of engineering in today's world. But what of the future of innovation? Perhaps innovation itself needs an overhaul. Innovation is easy to define: the introduction of something new. But perhaps we need to expand that definition or to introduce a different term-possibly meta - inno - vation: the deployment of an innovation where it has not been deployed before. Or as an alternative: the advantageous redeployment of an ancient innovation that has fallen out of favor.
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