innovation and emergence
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//TRENDS//Innovation: the emergent world we live in
Alberto Cottica
D4SB Master Course
From opportunity assessment to business planning in social businessLesson 5
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What isINNOVATION?
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Everyone thinks of artefacts....
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... but it is people who give meaning to them.
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A complexity approach: innovation happens in agent-artefact space
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• in the 15th century manuscripts are large and heavy
• exquisitely decorated
• almost solely about religion
• heavily commented
• to read, you’d wear your best clothes, set them on a stand and read aloud
• handcopied by scribes
Example: the book
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Example: the book
• enter Gutenberg (and his investor, Fust)
• he needs to invent around some technical problems that require metalwork skills
• goal: printing faster and cheaper manuscripts (and indulgences)
• 1450: success!
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But then...
• Fust and Schoeffer have extra copies, so they invent the publishing industry...
• ...and advertisement (1469)
• Aldus Manutius invents the pocket book: smaller, cheaper, portable, uncommented, with a clean italic font (1490s)
• Pietro Bembo invents punctuation, the introduction (and the Italian language! 1501)
• modern reading is born, as culture democratizes
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Technologically determined adoption
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The Venetian book, language and format
Socially determined “adoption”
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Exaptive bootstrapping dynamics
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organizational transformation
new patterns of interaction
new attribution of functionality
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Innovation is emergent
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It happens in the context of relationships
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Its engine is diversity (but not too much)
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Social business and social innovation are emergent too
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Opportunities emerge from the crisis of the welfare state
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...build competitiveness by generating new attributions...
What is a schoolbus?
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...and have far-reaching unexpected effects!
1985 2009
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• Identify at least one innovation in social business and discuss in terms of attributional shifts
• Try to discover the context in which the idea first surfaced. Was there a generative relationship? If so, who were the main characters?
• write a blog post/wikipedia entry on your understanding of the role of innovation in social business. How important is it? Has it always be as important as now, or has it been more or less important in the past than now? And why?
Assignments!
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Reading list
• For a theory of innovation broadly consistent with the lecture: D. Lane, Innovation and complexity. In D. Lane et. al., “Complexity Perspectives to Innovation and Social Change”, 2010
• For examples of social innovation: www.thebigsociety.co.uk/big-society-in-action
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