There is a three-part checklist to get started innovating:
1. A hunch about a real-world problem.
2. A set of parts (resources) and access to a community of people to render the problem tangible.
3. A strategy to engage in trial and error, and an appetite to learn by being wrong first.
From the book, Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong by Luis Perez-Breva