innovator

• innovatour (obsolete, rare)

From Late Latin innovātor, from innovō;^[1] equivalent to innovate +‎ -or.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/

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innovator (plural innovators)

1. Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
   • 2011 March 25, Maria Winckler, “Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations.

   • 2011 July 4, Simon Reynolds, “Is Björk the last great pop innovator?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.

   • 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.

2. (marketing) An early adopter.

• ideator
• innovating

innovātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of innovō