If your interested in how Art and Science come together to create Innovation, look to the business press. There’s enough books to keep you reading for a couple solid years, but the skinny is: Innovation is a messy process that’s impossible to pin down exactly.
It needs lots of groundwork in the fundamentals, plus a naive mindset, but is entirely dependant on a “moment of inspiration”. And that can’t be formulated or predicted, and probably has more to do with group dynamics (Organizational Behavior) than anything else.