4. History and Innovation Johnson used history to study instances of innovation and the environments where these ideas were produced.
5. Patterns in Innovation Environments that encourage creative thoughts and produce good ideas must have certain similarities.
6. Platform Good ideas are often built upon other good ideas to eventually create great ones. Time has changed the process in which we build off of a platform.
11. Ideas Rise in Crowds… “The rise in liquid networks is where connection is valued more than protection. So if we want to build environments that generate good ideas—whether those environments are in schools or corporations or governments or our own personal lives we need to keep that history in mind, and not fall back on the easy assumptions that competitive markets are the only reliable source of good ideas.” -Steve Johnson
12. What do these spaces have in common? Architecture of Spaces
19. Finally, Johnson believes that innovative environments share these patterns: The Adjacent possible Liquid Networks The Slow Hunch Serendipity Error Exaptation Platforms