Comments on: So Where Is Innovation Heading? https://thinking4innovators.com/so-where-is-innovation-heading/ Bringing my thinking and solutions to your business problems Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: @paul4innovating https://thinking4innovators.com/so-where-is-innovation-heading/#comment-1810 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:39:10 +0000 http://paul4innovating.com/?p=15107#comment-1810 In reply to Bob Jacobson.

Always Government seems a different story. I have never felt the^overarching framework provided in the EU makes for good, efficient and focused innovation at country level. The US has always, it seems, been one where it leaves much to private industry or government edict. Not much in-between. Will it change, as previously, slowly and when it is ‘deemed’ to push it.

]]> By: Bob Jacobson https://thinking4innovators.com/so-where-is-innovation-heading/#comment-1809 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:56:22 +0000 http://paul4innovating.com/?p=15107#comment-1809 Paul’s narrative is informative and inspiring, and I largely agree that commerce is mutating at a rapid pace. However, while implying that innovation is happening everywhere, then narrowing the narrative largely to corporations, makes it easy to ignore how stodgy and non-innovative our public sectors remain. Not everywhere: in the Nordic nations where I often lived, public agencies have taken the lead in innovation initiatives. The same is true in Canada and in bits and pieces, the UK. But back here in the USA, and probably in most of the world (not least, America’s on-again, off-again agonists, Russia and China), governance remains one of the least “innovated” human activities, especially when one seeks a larger sample than just the day’s most recent tweets or social media uptrends. I have been dealing with public agencies for the last several decades and must say, I’ve about had it with them. They delight, almost smirk, at the notion of innovation — I mean, besides the few obvious venues in which it thrives, especially when large philanthropic incentives are at stake — and laugh at those who would seek improvements, as if that really mattered when one occupies a well-funded sinecure. I wish I could be more optimistic about this large segment of social phenomena, but honesty prevents it. I may go off and do some innovating in that sector myself, which will consist of a future-history fictional account of radical innovation in governance that no doubt will be be shrugged off even by those who may one day experience it firsthand and wonder why they didn’t see it coming….

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