Innovation is not just about making artifacts: it's about negotiating what those artifacts are, and what we use them for. A complexity perspective on innovation and why it is relevant for social business.
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Innovation and emergence
1. //TRENDS//
Innovation: the emergent world we live in
Alberto Cottica
D4SB Master Course
From opportunity assessment to business planning in social business
Lesson 5
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6. Example: the book
• in the 15th century manuscripts
are large and heavy
• exquisitely decorated
• almost solely about religion
• heavily commented
• to read, you’d wear your best
clothes, set them on a stand
and read aloud
• handcopied by scribes
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7. Example: the book
• enter Gutenberg (and his
investor, Fust)
• he needs to invent around
some technical problems that
require metalwork skills
• goal: printing faster and
cheaper manuscripts (and
indulgences)
• 1450: success!
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8. But then...
• Fust and Schoeffer have extra
copies, so they invent the
publishing industry...
• ...and advertisement (1469)
• Aldus Manutius invents the
pocket book: smaller, cheaper,
portable, uncommented, with a
clean italic font (1490s)
• Pietro Bembo invents
punctuation, the introduction
(and the Italian language! 1501)
• modern reading is born, as
culture democratizes
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The Venetian book,
Socially determined “adoption”
language and format
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11. Exaptive bootstrapping dynamics
organizational transformation
new patterns of
new artifact interaction
new attribution of functionality
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13. It happens in the
context of relationships
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14. Its engine is diversity
(but not too much)
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15. Social business and social
innovation are emergent too
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16. 60
45
% of working-age population
30
% of population ages 65 and above
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1960 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
Opportunities emerge from
the crisis of the welfare state
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18. 1985 2009
...and have far-reaching unexpected effects!
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19. Assignments!
• Identify at least one innovation in social business and discuss in terms of
attributional shifts
• Try to discover the context in which the idea first surfaced. Was there a
generative relationship? If so, who were the main characters?
• write a blog post/wikipedia entry on your understanding of the role of
innovation in social business. How important is it? Has it always be as
important as now, or has it been more or less important in the past than now?
And why?
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20. Reading list
• For a theory of innovation broadly consistent with the lecture: D. Lane,
Innovation and complexity. In D. Lane et. al., “Complexity Perspectives to
Innovation and Social Change”, 2010
• For examples of social innovation: www.thebigsociety.co.uk/big-society-in-
action
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