[seminar] T. Fink, 12.5. (petak) 14:30h (c.t.), seminar ZTF-a

[Anđelo Samsarov]

        SEMINAR  TEORIJSKE  FIZIKE


    (Zajednički seminari Fizičkog odsjeka PMF-a te Zavoda za teorijsku
     fiziku i Zavoda za eksperimentalnu fiziku IRB-a)

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    Serendipity and strategy in rapid innovation


    Thomas Fink
    Head of London institute of Mathematical sciences



    Datum:  petak, 12. svibnja 2017.
    Vrijeme: 14:30 sati c.t.
    Mjesto: IRB, seminar ZTF-a


   Sažetak:

Innovation is to organizations what evolution is to organisms: it is  
how organisations adapt to changes in the environment and improve.  
Governments, institutions and firms that innovate are more likely to  
prosper and stand the test of time; those that fail to do so fall  
behind their competitors and succumb to market and environmental  
change. Yet despite steady advances in our understanding of evolution,  
what drives innovation remains elusive. On the one hand, organizations  
invest heavily in systematic strategies to drive innovation. On the  
other, historical analysis and individual experience suggest that  
serendipity plays a significant role in the discovery process. To  
unify these two perspectives, we analyzed the mathematics of  
innovation as a search process for viable designs across a universe of  
building blocks. We then tested our insights using historical data  
from language, gastronomy and technology. By measuring the number of  
makeable designs as we acquire more components, we observed that the  
relative usefulness of different components is not fixed, but cross  
each other over time. When these crossovers are unanticipated, they  
appear to be the result of serendipity. But when we can predict  
crossovers ahead of time, they offer an opportunity to strategically  
increase the growth of our product space. Thus we find that the  
serendipitous and strategic visions of innovation can be viewed as  
different manifestations of the same thing: the changing importance of  
component building blocks over time.



Voditelj seminara: Anđelo Samsarov (asamsarov at irb.hr)

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