Let’s be clear: you can’t manage invention or nurture it … think innovation ecologies, not mechanisms. But you can manage innovation, the pathway to the market. Indeed, we constantly discover that there is often more creativity in bringing a radical innovation to market than what went into the invention in the first place. Yes, this is about lessons learned the hard way.
– “Research that Reinvents the Corporation,” HBR, by John Seely Brown (August 2002)
– The Crafts of Super Innovation Working Knowledge
– Changing the Game of Corporate Research: Learning to Thrive in the Fog of Reality (PDF)
– Innovating Innovation, by John Seely Brown (foreword for Open Innovation by Henry Chesbrough)
– The evolution of Innovation interview with Jim Euchner
– Assessing Corporate Research Restructuring at Xerox, by John Seely Brown
– Sustaining the Ecology of Knowledge, by John Seely Brown
– Sarah Powell’s Spotlight interview with JSB circa 2003