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Who was the first person to use the term ‘innovation’?
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That would be the English philosopher Francis Bacon. He coined the term “innovation” in his 1620 book Novum Organum. In it, he argues that there are three ways to find knowledge: through experience, through the senses, and through experiments. He argues that experience and the senses are not sufficient for making progress in the sciences, so he calls for experiments to be used to find new knowledge.