Learn the five secrets of innovation - CNN.com

Researchers say anyone can learn to innovate like Steve Jobs.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• After a six-year study, researchers say they have identified the secrets of being a great innovator
• Innovation is not an inherent trait, it's a set of skills that anyone can learn
• Exposing yourself to new ideas and observing the world around you can drive innovation

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London, England (CNN) -- Coming up with brilliant, game-changing ideas is what makes the likes of Apple's Steve Jobs so successful, and now researchers say they have identified the five secrets to being a great innovator

Professors from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, that included interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell, founder of Dell computers.

In an article published in December's Harvard Business Review the researchers identified five skills that separate the blue-sky innovators from the rest -- skills they labeled associating, questioning, observing, experimenting and discovering.

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