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Without innovation companies die and without innovation societies ultimately die too.
We think there's an opportunity to
increased performance of many institutions. We think that this policy brief
provides
some of the essential lessons that people need to get started.
We are in a period now that all the institutions in society need to be innovative.
The key source of innovation today is new forms collaboration, where institutions
can reach out and
tap in to new sources of skills and and capabilities by collaborating with people
in their broader ecosystem.
Universities collaborating with students and faculty. Governments collaborating
with citizens and non-profit organizations
It's these collaborative models that will inevitably drive new forms of innovation
and value creation in every institution.
You look at a discipline like astronomy today and
increasingly it's the entire community of astronomers that are collectively coding and
creating and sharing data sets.
Some papers published in this discipline have a thousand authors. That's how big
these collaborations have become in the scientific community.
We need some foundational public policies to be put in place. We need support for open
standards. We need arguably new digital public goods for a knowledge based economy
inclusive more open access to publishing in science
better access to
digital libraries and knowledge assets that people can reuse and repurpose
We have essentially had the same model of education as they had back in the days of Plato and
Aristotle. Even Socrates for that matter. I mean if you if you were to bring any one
of those figures back to life today
they would still recognize the fundamental basics of today's classroom. We need a different
model of the university itself. Right now we have a very ivory tower model
where what I think we need is a is a global network for higher learning where educational
curricula a shared and codeveloped across universities.
What we need in are new models to get businesses, to get citizens, to get all aspects of our
society involved in addressing climate change in trying to reduce our carbon footprints.
What we need today are much more customized, interactive and collaborative public services
services where citizens themselves actually get engaged in
not just designing the service but in some cases even delivering the services. Citizens
become part of the value creation process.
Governments need to be more transparent. They need to be more collaborative.
They need to engage with citizens and they need to look for new ideas, new innovations.
Not just within the confines of the bureaucracy but in the broader society
in which they are a part.
My thing is that you should do what is closest to home, take initiative, show leadership in your own
domain, in your own institutions, companies and governments. I think that really is
the key.