[seminar] [DANAS] T. Fink, 12.5. (petak) 14:30h (c.t.), seminar ZTF-a
Anđelo Samsarov
Andjelo.Samsarov at irb.hr
Fri May 12 11:09:15 CEST 2017
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)
http://thphys.irb.hr/Seminar/list.htm
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