Crowd-Accelerated Innovation

Chris Ander­son taught me a new concept: Crowd-Accelerated Innov­a­tion.
Three thing are needed for this:

This is most eas­ily achieved by util­ising web video such as You­Tube, where it is pos­sible to real­ise global innov­a­tion. It is how­ever my strong belief that the concept of crowd-accelerated innov­a­tion is applic­able also to smal­ler groups such as com­pan­ies, uni­ver­sit­ies and other organ­isa­tions. There are sev­eral reas­ons against open­ness in many organ­isa­tions; it may be fear (don’t upset the boss — I might lose my bonus), per­sonal power (my know­ledge gives me my pos­i­tion) or many other reas­ons. Real innov­a­tion is so much easier achieved in a truly open climate.

Watch Chris Anderson’s TED talk here: