innovator

• innovatour (obsolete, rare)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/

innovator (plural innovators)

1. Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
   • 2011 July 4, Simon Reynolds, “Is Björk the last great pop innovator?”, in The Guardian‎, →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.

2. (marketing) An early adopter.

• innovator's dilemma

• ideator
• innovating

innovātor

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