What is innovation for you?

 For everyone, the concept of "innovation" has its own meaning. What is innovation for you?
1. Technologies of copper-porphyry ore processing have been used for over 100 years, but they are "Innovative technologies" for Russian Copper Company?  They could not solve the problem of silicates for 100 years. Now this is your problem too.
2. They wrote on the site «The National University of Science and Technology "MISiS" (formerly Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys State Technological University»:
 «Innovative technology of smelting cast iron»
Can we read that technology is innovative, if she could not break into the market for 40 years?
I think not.
They say they can get a slag of a certain quality (Slag is a waste of pig iron production).
Why should I slag? I buy a stove to get cast iron.

 I will now write many formulas, and you will not even understand. And specialists from Switzerland and Germany will say that this is very good. You see just a gallery in Chile (canaletas abiertas), but I see an innovation that has been dreamed of in Russia for 50 years, they don't even know about it.

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya