Starclouds

In response to yesterday’s post on challenging the conventional wisdom about innovation, with particular reference to the third point about the importance of “intangibles,” Phil Auerswald from the George Mason University School of Public Policy sent me the latest issue of the journal Innovations, which he co-edits. The theme of this issue is collaborative innovation and collective intelligence. It includes cases authored by Cory Ondrejka, co-founder and CTO of Second Life; two of the principals at Ideo, the famed Palo Alto design firm; strategy & collaborative innovation gurus Tom Malone (MIT), Bhaskar Chakravorti (McKinsey), and Philip Evans (Boston Consulting Group); a protagonist in the failed DARPA “market for terrorism risk; and authors from Innocentive, Harvard Business School, Science Commons, and Ashoka.

The issue looks fascinating, and I look forward to reading it. In the meantime, here is an official blurb about Innovations:

Innovations: People Using Technology to Address Global Challenges

http://mitpress.mit.edu/innovations/ [free content and subscriptions]

Innovations is a journal for, and about, people using technology and novel modes of organization to address global challenges. The journal was launched in the Winter of 2006 as a publication of MIT Press, jointly hosted at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government (Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs) and George Mason University’s School of Public Policy (Center for Science and Technology Policy). Philip Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir serve as the journal?s co-editors; John Holdren is the chair of the journal’s advisory board. The leadership of the journal is shared and supported by an international editorial board, with guidance from an advisory board whose members (in addition to Holdren) include two former U.S. Presidential Science Advisors, a former NASA Administrator, the chief counsel on the House Science Committee, the publisher of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, and R.K. Pachauri, co-recipient (on behalf of the IPCC) of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.