1. Where Good Ideas Come FromSteven Johnson Innovation and the Environment Chelsea Mella

2. Could location effect the production of good ideas?

3. Striving for….. creativity innovation better thinking skills

4. History and Innovation Johnson used history to study instances of innovation and the environments where these ideas were produced.

5. Patterns in Innovation Environments that encourage creative thoughts and produce good ideas must have certain similarities.

6. Platform Good ideas are often built upon other good ideas to eventually create great ones. Time has changed the process in which we build off of a platform.

7. Collision of Ideas

8. Are We Distracted? or connected?

9. Most people believe…. multitasking = less innovative ideas

10. But these “distractions” could connect us to pieces of information that are vital to our ideas.

11. Ideas Rise in Crowds… “The rise in liquid networks is where connection is valued more than protection. So if we want to build environments that generate good ideas—whether those environments are in schools or corporations or governments or our own personal lives we need to keep that history in mind, and not fall back on the easy assumptions that competitive markets are the only reliable source of good ideas.” -Steve Johnson

12. What do these spaces have in common? Architecture of Spaces

13. The Liquid Network Most great ideas are not created alone in the lab.

14. Goal…. To create environments that promote collaboration, innovation, creativity, and that are fertile for good ideas.

15. What is required? Diversity Expertise Many ideas Range of professions

16. Eventually Johnson discovered that many instances of innovation in history happened similarly. -Darwin-Incubator-Gutenberg-Lee de Forestand MORE!

17. Biological Systems

18. Cities Win!

19. Finally, Johnson believes that innovative environments share these patterns: The Adjacent possible Liquid Networks The Slow Hunch Serendipity Error Exaptation Platforms

20. Resources Johnson, S. (2010). Where good ideas come from. New York: Penguin Group.