True innovators have the persistence to champion their ideas.
Consider Richard Miller, senior research specialist, 3M Pharmaceuticals, who spent more than a decade nurturing a laboratory discovery into a 3M breakthrough product. As a boy growing up on a Wisconsin farm, Miller learned that problem-solving was essential to completing his daily chores. He also applied his creativity and diligence to his studies, eventually earning a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Minnesota. Miller, however, decided to continue experimentation and subsequent results indicated extreme potency. But bad news came as cost-cutting measures were implemented and the antiviral research program was terminated.