1. Where Good Ideas Come FromSteven Johnson
Innovation and the Environment
Chelsea Mella

2. Could location effect the production of good ideas?
3. Striving for..
creativity
innovation
better thinking skills
4. History and Innovation
Johnson used history to study instances of innovation and the environments where these ideas were produced.
5. Patterns in Innovation
Environments that encourage creative thoughts and produce good ideas must have certain similarities.
6. Platform
Good ideas are often built upon other good ideas to eventually create great ones.Time has changed the process in which we build off of a platform.
7. Collision of Ideas
8. Are We Distracted?
or connected?
9. Most people believe.
multitasking = less innovative ideas
10. But these distractions could connect us to pieces of information that are vital to our ideas.
11. Ideas Rise in Crowds
The rise in liquid networks is where
connection is valued more than protection.
So if we want to build environments that
generate good ideaswhether those
environments are in schools or corporations
or governments or our own personal lives
we need to keep that history in mind, and
not fall back on the easy assumptions that
competitive markets are the only reliable
source of good ideas.
-Steve Johnson
12. What do these spaces have in common?
Architecture of Spaces
13. The Liquid Network
Most great ideas are not created alone in the lab.
14. Goal.
To create environments
that promote collaboration,
innovation, creativity, and
that are fertile for good
ideas.
15. What is required?
Diversity
Expertise
Many ideas
Range of professions
16. Eventually Johnson discovered that many
instances of innovation in history
happened similarly.
-Darwin-Incubator-Gutenberg-Lee de Forestand MORE!
17. Biological Systems
18. Cities Win!
19. Finally, Johnson believes that innovative environments share these patterns:
The Adjacent possible
Liquid Networks
The Slow Hunch
Serendipity
Error
Exaptation
Platforms
20. Resources
Johnson, S. (2010). Where good ideas come from. New York: Penguin Group.