Creativity and Innovation

You can't have innovation without knowledge ... you can't take any effective action without knowledge, and people have always been—and always will be—creative.  So KM and Innovation both follow the knowledge stream, with innovation representing new thought (knowledge proceeding) that's been put into action.  Innovation is a natural outcrop of co-evolving with our environment.  (See the paper on "Levels of Knowledge" in the Knowledge area for further insights.)

Lessons Learned, Creativity and Innovation:  Building Efficacy through Knowledge. Moving from Lessons Learned, this paper addresses how teams learn to minimize future problems and mistakes and use that learning as a starting place for creating new ideas, practices and innovative products. (PDF, 7 pages)

The Liberation of Knowledge and Creativity. Discussion slides for promoting interaction on creativity and innovation in terms of knowledge and sharing.  (PowerPoint, 12 slides)

The Future of Innovation

Creating Innovation from the Inside Out.  Succinct thoughts from Dr. David Bennet on the future of innovation.  (PDF, 1 pg)

Tapping into the Unconscious and Collective.  Succinct thoughts from Dr. Alex Bennet on the future of innovation. (PDF, 1 page)

The Future of Innovation.  Short idea slides relating the future of innovation to the strengthening of connections and relations.  (PowerPoint, 5 slides)  See the paper on Social Learning listed in both the Neuroscience area and the Social Knowledge area. Includes three early Myst pictures (see Spirituality). 

Thoughts on Creativity.  A short overview connecting the dots of creativity concepts from the literature.  Provided the basis for the comments in Chapter 8 of the ICAS book. (PDF, 5 pages)