I recently taught a course in innovation at the University of Minnesota's Center for Development of Technological Leadership. Ideas and concepts are not innovations.
Innovation involves invention and commercialization or implementation.
Perhaps some discussion might bring the word innovation in focus. Ideas and concepts are not innovations. If consensus cannot be reached, then each of us must state in ourwritings just what the word innovation includes. I doubt it. I appreciate your experience and understanding of innovation, but the truth is that it is both possible and necessary to talk about innovative ideas.