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20 Jan 08
Martin KoserThis is my review of ‘The Myths of Innovation’ by Scott Berkun. If you have been following academicproductivity.com for any amount of time, you know that we really like Scott Berkun’s books.
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21 Oct 07
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One last thing that I wanted to say about this book is that it has a very innovative way doing references. It has an annotated bibliography and it has also a ranked bibliography; that is, Berkun ranked books he used by how many ideas he took from each of them. This is actually a pretty interesting idea that we academics should explore.
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Figure 6.4 is actually a graph of how people find ideas. So this was our recent survey of over 100 self-identified
innovators in various fields, and interestingly most people, about 70% say that they look for areas in different fields from their own, this is actually key: so next lunch break, go to the cafeteria with people from a different department -
you don’t have anything until you have an implementation - a working implementation.
So, the success of the printing press in Europe is due to Gutenberg, not to the Chinese, who actually invented the printing press. -
as scientists are not writing poems, we are not writing literature, so we don’t have to wait for inspiration. Our work is sort of easier to schedule and we don’t depend so much on inspiration, which is a great.
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