In my last column I showed that Mississippi has vast untapped potential for innovation, mainly because of our human asset. Based on research first published in 1962 in the book Diffusion of Innovations we have we have the potential to build an army of roughly 74,000 innovators. While statistically, this number represents just 2.5 percent of our population, these individuals are our current and future “game-changers” in whichever field they choose to engage in.
