How "Pasteur's Quadrant" enlightens invention, innovation, inquiry and other thinking challenges

Big Think's framework introduction

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Political scientist Donald E. Stokes outlined distinct dimensions and categories of research in his 1997 publication Pasteur’s Quadrant.

• Stokes created a framework — “Pasteur’s quadrant” — that visualizes the invention-innovation challenge faced by industrial research labs.

• Pasteur’s quadrant did not yet exist when the mission statement for Microsoft Research (MSR) was drafted — but the similarities are remarkable.