Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes – Coevolving Innovations
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Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes – Coevolving Innovations
“Dunbar's research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a cirele of humans at a table, talking shop. The lab meeting creates an environment where new combinations can occur, where information can spill over from o
... See morethere are decades of research on how knowledge workers in a decentralized network become “optimally distinct.”
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it is not merely that weak ties allow information to travel throughout a network more efficiently—that is, without becoming trapped on the remote island of a close-knit group. From the perspective of innovation, it’s even more important that the information arriving from one of those weak ties is coming from a different context, what the innovation
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