Author: Tholo Lerotholi

In a paradoxical twist, our journey into the future commences with a retrospective glance at innovation’s history – a lesson in the timeless art of collaboration. Think Thomas Edison, popularly known as the father of invention, this is how far innovation collaboration is traced. His most famous inventions include telecommunications devices like the automatic telegraph, the carbon telephone transmitter and phonograph. Less popularly known is that Edison’s real genius lay in improving on existing ideas. Consider the evolution of the lightbulb. A year before Thomas Edison’s invention, in 1879 Joseph Swan invented a lightbulb, but it wasn’t commercially viable. Then…