Application of catalytic effect to create innovation

There exist a lot of incremental innovations to solve superficial problems. Breakthrough type innovation, however, is expected to solve latent problems. Consequently it realizes safe and wealthy society and competitive economy. Incremental innovation is realized by summation of several solutions in a conventional fixed dimension. The authors think that breakthrough type innovation is realized by expanding this dimension to missing dimension. A bladeless electric fan, a smart-phone, the cloud computing are the examples that new business model was born in a different dimension from conventional one. The authors propose a method to create this new dimension by the chemical model of catalytic effect. As an example; the innovation caused by smart meter is described. It is simply replacement by of an analog meter to digital within telecommunication in a fixed dimension to realized AMR (Automated Meter Reading). However, smart grid is applied as catalyst, smart meter get the opportunity of AMI. This creates breakthrough type innovation in electric power industry. The authors give some examples of catalytic effect producing new dimension such as smart phone, smart grid, etc.