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Steven Johnson: The Force Behind Innovation and Evolution

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Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, discusses a Stanford study that found unusually innovative professionals to have relatively diverse networks of acquaintances. He relates this correlation to the principle of exaptation, a driving force behind much biological and technological evolution.
Willy Wonka vs. Wikipedia: Apple's Model of Innovation

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In Where Good Ideas Come From, author Steven Johnson argues that collaboration is at the core of innovation. But does Apple's closed-off, "Willy Wonka" model of development shoot holes in that argument?

Johnson addresses this seeming incongruity, speculating that design-driven projects and companies (like Apple) may be governed by a different logic.
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Eric Jensen

Posted: 11.04.10, 06:43 PM

It sounds like he's talking about jazz...

diavel

Posted: 10.29.10, 07:40 PM

About Apple - the most innovative invention in their history - Apple Computer has its roots in exactly the kind of environment this guy is talking about. I'm also sure many of ideas in Apple have been commercialized or simply bought. Nice talk about important topic.