The Era of Open Innovation

The Era of Open Innovation.

This talk is deceptively simple but addresses the problem of whether patents promote innovation or protect the larger organisations. Larger organisations are understandably risk-averse, their credo is often to reduce the exposure and risk in order to produce predictably and, of course, profit. Real innovation is, by its nature, risky. The greater the leap, the greater the risk. What Leadbeater looks at, with a beautifully clear train of thought, is whether open source is the real future of innovation.

This is well worth listening to. 

Charles Leon. 7th August 2017

The Passion to Create

The passion to create drives the human species, making us different from all other living things.

Creativity is a fundamental part of human existence. The creative impulse is instinctive to everyone, but it remains a misunderstood and elusive phenomenon often shrouded in the mystery and misunderstanding. Creativity is a state of mind that can motivate and generate change. Innovation and creativity are at the heart of what it means to be alive and to experience.

In this blog I'd like to explore and discuss the idea that creativity and innovation are fundamental human qualities and are applicable to everyone. 

There are 3 important abilities:

1. The synthetic ability to see problems in new ways and to escape the bounds of conventional thinking.
2. The analytic ability to recognise which of one's ideas are worth pursuing and which are not
3. The practical-contextual ability to know how to persuade others of - to sell other people - the value of ones ideas. 

References

Robert J Sternberg & Todd I. Lubart - The concept of creativity: Prospects and Paradigms
Charles J. Lumsden - Evolving Creative Minds: Stories and Mechanisms
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity, The pshychology of Discovery and Invention.
David Bohm - On Creativity