Be innovative with science fiction!

What exactly is innovation? What abilities are required to be innovative? Where do ideas come from? Are there any tools that can help us? What can we learn from science fiction (or not)?
I grew up with science fiction as a child of the 1980s. And today, as a professor, giving a lecture about science fiction, which has already become a part of reality, is interesting, inspiring, but also makes me think...

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