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A New Challenge
Four years ago, I left a 25 year career as a consultant and entrepreneur for the challenge of academia.
After many years on the corporate side of life, it seemed that it was a great time to join those who are
driving much of the truly innovational thinking and the learning/teaching through students of all ages.
It is with this commitment to innovation and learning that I have accepted the editor’s torch that
Praveen Gupta has so generously lit and carried since starting this journal.
Academic journals have been published since the 17th century, and some say, have changed little.
Our challenge as the editors of an academically focused journal on innovation is to maintain the high
standards of peer review, academia and scholarship while addressing and practicing what we preach.
This mission of change, while preserving what is best in scholarship may be one of the most interesting
projects I have personally undertaken in my career. How to satisfy the academic community, a
community with roots reaching back to Plato’s Gymnasium in ancient Akademeia Greece, while
embracing innovation and the future will require the journal's writers and editors to contemplate what
it means to be innovative while respecting tradition and the best of the past. To accept a challenge to
extend our world view and change the perception that innovation and innovative thinking is only done
by 20 somethings in Silicon Valley. In fact, innovation is done every day in very deliberate and
scientific ways. Our mission at The Journal is to capture the innovation process and dessiminate it to
the world. To discover the process wherby the lightbulb is lit, and how to operationalize this use of light
to benefit many.
In the spirit of this challenge, the reader will begin to see changes as The Journal evolves over the
next year or two with new sections for opinions, letters, project reports, preliminary research and book
reviews. Additional modifications may include layout changes and other issues of importance to you,
the readers.
Editing an Academic Journal is an act of love. There are countless hours of editing, managing a
diverse editorial review process and always working to turn the journal into something extraordinary.
It is only with the support of a strong and dedicated volunteer editorial board that a journal can be
produced in a timely, high quality manner. The editorial board of The Journal of Innovation Science
represents the best of innovative thinking in the world today, and for their time, expertise and energy,
we are all thankful.

Brett E. Trusko, PhD

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Innovation Science
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Volume 2 · Number 2 · 2010