Author: Prof Kishore Paknikar
NEW FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE Every innovation begins as a quiet possibility. A researcher notices an unexpected laboratory result, an engineer identifies a long-standing societal problem, or a student imagines a better way to complete a routine task. At this earliest stage, nothing is written, tested, or demonstrated. There is only thought. This informal beginning, sometimes called TRL 0 (Technology Readiness Level), is where most ideas remain, and that is natural. Imagination must always exceed what is built, for it is the source of originality. Yet when a particular idea refuses to fade, it must begin the long journey from possibility…