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Companies have been working closely with external partners for innovation process. Through joint projects with universities, companies retrieve latest findings to be used by their internal R&D departments. However, this new concept called Open Innovation (OI) takes a step further by ...
Better Ideas Faster
Lumosity Surpasses 100 Million Users
Lumosity, a startup with more than 40 science-inspired web and mobile games for exercising the brain, has surpassed 11 million members in 190 countries and saw 400% growth in 2010. The startup credits a mixture of factors including mobile adoption, user recommendations and product enhancements for its huge bump in members.
“Mainly, though, there’s been growth in the general awareness that you can actually affect the performance of your brain,” says co-founder and Chief Science Officer Mike Scanlan.
I started using Lumosity brain training games a few years ago. It is a great tool. Of course I haven't used it that much in the last year or so. I should probably pick it back up again.
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
"What kind of environment creates good ideas? The simplest way to answer it is this: innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore the adjacent possible, because they expose a wide and diverse sample of spare parts - mechanical or conceptual - and they encourage novel ways of recombining those parts." - Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Collaboration
collaboration |kəˌlabəˈrā sh ən|
noun
the action of working with someone to produce or create something :
Working together shouldn't be as difficult as it is sometimes. Yet, there are collaborations that happen everyday. In my studies on collaboration I have found that artists particularly musicians are mentioned as being great collaborators. Maybe musicians are quick to work together because they have found the value in it.
I have found that social sector collaborations are far more rare. Yet, it is imperative that organizations work together to create sustained and systemic impact on complex social problems. In the social sector there is a silo mentality and duplication of effort that is all to familiar. This stems from a lack of resources and inability to find a common vision. It leads to a competitive culture, not a culture of collaboration. My hope is that social sector organizations can find the same value that musicians have found in collaborating. Hopefully, when organizations experience the value of collaboration they will do it more and more and this will lead to social innovation.
“A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals.”
Rediscovering Social Innovation - Stanford Social Innovation Review (via lucasmalaspina)
dEsire for DiVersity
Today I was having lunch with a friend of mine and we began to discuss diversity and the need for it in the environment. He was explaining to me that monocultures are not good for environmental sustainability or life in general, but that biodiversity is one of the most important things to our future existence.
This got me thinking about diversity in a social and community context. Just as in the environment, monocultures are detrimental to the progress and sustainability of life. This is what the theory of groupthink is based on; groupthink causes groups to not test ideas, to not look for outside input, and eventually make faulty decisions. Diversity is key to breaking the silo-mentality that results from monocultures.
Diversity is also key to the creative process within organizations and businesses. The diversity of skills, backgrounds, cultures, sex, ethnicity, political and religious views is a catalyst for create thought. Ideas need to be bounced off of people with different points of view. This only causes a novel idea to develop and grow.
These are a few reasons I feel like diversity is important. Why do you feel diversity is important?
How Coworking Spaces Will Help Shape The New Economy
Great article from the peeps over at The Cube in London. This kind of thinking is exactly what The Grove has going on in New Haven. We are creating a space for connection and the creation/sharing of ideas that create the new economy we live in.
Coworking spaces are more than just space, convenience, or a random unification of desks. They are places where economy is being produced, new sectors are being created, and unlikely people are creating interesting communities. As companies and individual entrepreneurs search for ways to create innovation, our spaces should be a haven for people with ideas. They should act as idea laboratories where people can experiment with new processes of developing and implementing ideas. All of the coworking spaces around the world have a chance to create a significant impact in building an economy for their town, city, or country.
Coworking spaces bring together people of different thought processes, experiences, and talents. The interaction between people of such diverse backgrounds makes our spaces a breeding ground for strong idea communities, which will then lead to the creation of new sectors and industries.
Coworking spaces provide a faster economy force start-up businesses. One of the most important ingredients in building an economically sustainable business is contacts and community. We are creating tribes of people who are helping each other connect faster.
One of my favorite guys from one of my favorite companies, Tim Brown from IDEO explains how design thinking and collaborative creativity can change the world. This video is inspiring not just in the area of climate change, but how we can utilize the same tools that IDEO and other designers use to effect global change.
I probably should have known more about Hit Record before now as several of my friends have worked on projects through it, but alas I did not. Now I do have a small understanding of the workings of hitrecord.org and I am impressed and inspired. It seems to me that this collaborative production studio could be a new model for creating a lot of great work and for inspiring other types of collaboratives.
Amazing open source collaborative project that is bound to create a lot of good in the world.
sebasbarreneche:
One Great Idea:
Open Source Ecology —a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters who believe that “everyone in the world should have access to the technologies they need to escape poverty” — are hard at work on piecing together The Global Village Construction Set: “A set of the 40 different machines that it takes to create a small civilization with modern-day comforts.”
So far only one machine — a Compressed-Earth Brick Press — has been made available for purchase, but other machines will be following shortly.
Learn about the GVCS and how you can participate at OpenEcology.org!
Transformation Through Creation
Last night I attended the first CreateUp hosted by Create96 @ The Grove. What an amazing event. It was an inspirational time; hearing different people from the community sharing their exploration and creation of arts and crafts. For many it seemed that it was a journey into an uncharted territory or one that they may have known in another life but had long forgot. The challenge that brought us all back to creating was the 30x30 Challenge: 30 people create 1 new thing in 30 days.
For the 30x30 Challenge I chose to paint. I had received a set of paints, brushes, and canvases over a year ago and had never opened them. When Create96 posed the challenge to create I knew that I had to paint. I had no idea what I was going to paint. But eventually a picture came to mind. Over a period of 3-4 days I painted the first picture I have painted in more than 15 years. It was a transformational experience. It seemed that this was the theme throughout the presentations at the CreateUp. Through releasing your creative spirit one experiences transformation of one kind or another. It seems that individuals can be transformed through exploring their individual creativity. I wonder if a community can be transformed through engaging the creative process.
A question: Can a community (city, neighborhood, group of people) be transformed through the creative process?
midnightminute:
This is my favorite song at the moment. Best collaboration I’ve heard so far!
Definitely an amazing collaboration. One of my favorite artists Bon Iver mixed up by a hip hop artist I respect a lot, Kanye West. I always find it interesting how musicians are some of the best collaborators on the planet.
