If the innovation landscape is setting the stage for innovation to occur, you may well ask for the main cast: who are the innovation protagonists? I've indicated some ideas on the roles that institutions, organisations, and entrepreneurs play. Focusing on the difference between those roles, today I’ll paint them in black-and-white.
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Shaping the innovation landscape
Looking for a better way to explain innovation, I feel that "landscape" can be a quite powerful metaphor. Focused on the value that innovation must provide to society at large, I'll present the innovation landscape as the tension field that takes shape between demand and supply.
Pushing a rope … ??
While we can recount the history of past technological progress, we cannot anticipate is future trajectory. And still we keep making futile attempts at predicting what is un-predeterminable. We have to come to terms with the onway nature of path-dependence.
Does innovation need science?
Let's talk about science. But not from the perspective of what science is. Rather, let's look at the demand side: What roles does science play in innovation? Does innovation need science at all?
“Technological innovation” is redundant …
When talking about innovation you've surely seen fierce discussion over how much the engineers contributed, how much the sales people, how much the administrators, and so on. Today I'll argue that every innovation is technological, and that there are no other 'kinds of' innovation.
understanding innovation 