tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post1778361896607742888..comments2024-03-27T19:53:53.708-06:00Comments on growing changing learning creating: Legislating innovation?Tom Haskinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-80511319594999012432008-12-08T08:08:00.000-07:002008-12-08T08:08:00.000-07:00Thanks for your thoughts Ken. You're right the see...Thanks for your thoughts Ken. You're right the seed of an innovation is rarely recognizable and cannot be fostered directly. Yet when there's a fertile context in nature, the seeds benefit from growing conditions without individualized attention. <BR/><BR/>My concern with relying on adversity to provoke innovations as we've done throughout the industrial era, is that it usually spawns excessive consumption, abuse of non-renewable resources, polarizing of communities and corruption of power. By providing a nurturing context, I'm optimistic that the innovators will be in the frame of mind to consider the big picture, serve the customers with respect and give back to the communities in ways that make them resilient.<BR/><BR/>Have a reflective day!Tom Haskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12658791778134826289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117005533318160902.post-53597285192447263172008-12-06T04:24:00.000-07:002008-12-06T04:24:00.000-07:00Kia ora TomLegislating innovation. Hmmm.Innovation...Kia ora Tom<BR/><BR/>Legislating innovation. Hmmm.<BR/><BR/>Innovation is a bit like research, except only more so, if you catch my steam. It can be fostered - there is no doubt about that. But can its seed be recognised? That's the thing.<BR/><BR/>Innovation is done by innovators. Innovators tend to be born, not made, trained or even taught. There are many examples of innovators who just simply arrived with little fostering or support.<BR/><BR/>In fact, a lot of them seemed to thrive on the sheer lack of all that. Einstein, Edison, Faraday, Carnegie - none of them would have shaken the world with their background or their promise of genius early in life. None of them were promising scholars. But as innovators they were head and shoulders above the nations.<BR/><BR/>To find some of the finest innovations we only have to look at the art world. Art history is chock full of stories of impoverished budding artists, many of whom continued their life's work through poverty, innovating their way into the art history books.<BR/><BR/>I'd take my hat off (if I had one) to any authority that claimed to legislate innovation and that brought it to fruition. I guess they only have to find the ways.<BR/><BR/>Catchya later<BR/>from Middle-earthBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.com