Read Steven Johnson’s, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History Of Innovation. Triggers our thinking about creative collaboration & innovation. Great examples of how we can create environments that encourage good ideas. How can people with different skill sets & experiences can come together to create & innovate? We have a natural tendency to romanticise breakthroughs or imagine momentous ideas. But, we can also take the ideas we’ve inherited or we’ve stumbled across, jigger them together into some meaningful form & shape. Focuses on the core elements of a cultural environment that fosters an atmosphere of imagination & innovation. “Technology is a potent fertiliser of discovery & invention. Fosters connections between people & ideas. Liquid networks – flexible enough to facilitate real dynamic connections between good ideas, but structured enough to support them. Good ideas are often the result of people building on each other’s ideas (individually or collectively), enhanced by a flexible & fertile environment to stimulate creativity.
