Tony Stark’s laboratory – IronMan
Bruce Wayne’s basement – Batman begins
Batman’s Industrial wharehouse – The Dark Knight
NASA problem solving engineering team – Apollo 13
Rocket Boys machine shop technicians from the mines – October Sky
Applied Minds Inc
Raytheon Bike Shop
Lockheed Martin’s center for innovation
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk works
Scaled Composites
The Air Force center for rapid product development

Odyssey of the Mind – spontaneous problems
Google’s innovation teams

seemingly unlimited computational power
Visualization tools
R&D budget