We know innovation when we see it. But where does it come from? According to acclaimed author Walter Isaacson, who has studied some of the world's foremost thinkers, innovation emerges at the intersection of knowledge and creativity.
Isaacson, author of the only authorized biography of Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and himself a world-renowned business mind as former head of Time Magazine and CNN, is currently chairman and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit educational and policy studies organization.
During his IASA Conference keynote address at Monday morning's opening general session, Isaacson shared stories and insights about Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger and others he has written about who "have made that mental leap from having a foundation of knowledge to truly being imaginative."
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