Scaling innovation across a network
June Holley’s Twitter feed pointed me to a good post on innovation from the Innovation Leadership Network blog. The following words caught my eye:
…the way to innovate is to generate a lot of ideas, figure out ways to try them out cheaply and quickly, and then scale-up the ones that seem most promising.
This approach works particularly well in regional economic development. It is the framework we used in developing Strategic Doing at the Purdue Center for Regional Development.
We developed a discipline that enables civic entrepreneurs to test ideas quickly and then scale the ones that work.
Meanwhile, Jack Schultz's Twitter (@jackschultz) feed led me to this fascinating interactive map. It gives a good sense of the scale of the transformation ahead.
