This document discusses how migration can catalyze innovation. It provides examples of how migrating animals, cultures, and people throughout history have led to new ideas and changes in perception. Migration triggers five key innovation skills: association, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. The document advocates being willing to think outside the box in order to escape obvious patterns of thought.

1. MIGRATION
THE CATALYST
FOR INNOVATION
Esayas Gebremedhin (MA in Applied Imagination)
Co-Founder of I WISH & LALIAFLIA
Addis Abeba 29.11.2012

2. TRACES OF INNOVATION
THE RISK TAKERS
SHIFT IN PERCEPTION

3. TRACES OF
INNOVATION

4. WHERE IS HE FROM?

5. EARLY MIGRATION
- 60 000 YRS

6. WHERE IS MY
LUNCH GOING?

7. BIG ARTIFICIAL TEETH

8. EARLY MIGRATION
- 30 000 YRS

9. BIRRRRRRRR

10. SHOE MAKER

11. RECENT MIGRATION
- 5 000 YRS

12. MIGRATING WITH
THE STREAM

13. GOVERN TRADE

14. THE RISK TAKERS

15. PREPARED TO FACE
THE UNPREDICTABLE

16. “AS A GRADUATE STUDENT IN THE US,
I LEARNED THE VALUE OF TAKING
RISKS AND STARTING A COMPANY –
A DIFFERENT SENSE OF VALUES
THAN IN JAPAN,”
DR. SEMMOTO/
FOUNDER & CEO EACCESS LTD.

17. INDIA, US

18. RUSSIA, US

19. GERMANY, FAR EAST,
WEST AFRICA, UK

20. IRAN, FRANCE, US

21. AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE

22. EXAMPLES

23. LA
FLIA?
LIA
LALIAFLIA = INNOVATION
METHOD

24. I WISH

25. REVERSED CHAMELEON

26. SHIFT IN
PERCEPTION

27. WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY
ARE CAPABLE OF???

28. THE MIGRATION
OF COFFEE

29. THE MIGRATION
OF TĀ MOKO

30. THE MIGRATION
OF CHOPSTICKS

31. ANIMALS MIGRATE
CULTURE MIGRATES
PEOPLE MIGRATE

32. MIGRATING ANIMALS
= SMART(!)

33. MIGRATING CULTURES
= PROGRESS(?)

34. MIGRATING PEOPLE
= PRISONERS(?)

35. MIGRATING CULTURES
= PROGRESS(?)

36. MIGRATING ANIMALS
= SMART(!)

37. 5 INNOVATION SKILLS THAT
MIGRATING TRIGGERS

38. Association Questioning
Observing
Networking Experimenting
5 INNOVATION
SKILLS

39. THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

40. ARE YOU READY TO GO ESCAPE FROM THE
OBVIOUS? MENTALLY? PHYSICALLY?
EMOTIONALLY?