The document discusses combinatoric innovation and environments that foster innovation. It defines combinatoric innovation as discovering new value by combining previously disconnected intellectual capital from two or more sources. It describes key aspects of innovation environments, including diversity of perspectives, selection processes, perpetuation of ideas, co-evolution, unlearning, disruption, simplicity, spare capacity, timing, and providing a mix of approaches where surprises are not excluded. The document advocates for creating integrated innovation environments that bring together social, virtual, physical, and process spaces to facilitate serendipity, discovery, and collaboration among diverse participants.

1. Combinatoric Innovation
environments for creation and mobilization of intellectual capital
Paul Louis Iske
Professor Open Innovation, Maastricht University
Chief Dialogues Officer, ABN AMRO Bank

2. Innovation
Innovation is the process in which value
is created by the application of knowledge
in areas where this didn’t happen before.
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3. Knowledge is everywhere!
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4. Creativity
Being multiparadigmatic:
flexibly moving between,
combining and integrating
diverse ideas, perspectives,
intelligences and paradigms
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=
Provocative Operation
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5. Creativity, Innovation can not be forced
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6. An Environment consists of 4 spaces
Social space
Virtual space
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Process space Physical space

7. Environments for Innovation (C. Leadbeater)
1. Diversity
2. Selection
3. Perpetuation
4. Co-evolution
5. Unlearning
6. Disruption
7. Simplicity
8. Spare
capacity
9. Timing
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8. Diversity: Multiple Perspectives
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9. Combinatoric Innovation
Combinatoric Innovation is the process
of discovering new ways of value
creation by combining and applying
previously disconnected intellectual
capital from two or more sources.
Community of Serendipity
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10. Combinatoric Innovation
Serendipity Discovery Collaboration
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11. Combinatoric Innovation Business Case
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12. Combinatoric Innovation is a complex process
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13. Mix of DNA: Surprises not excluded
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14. Business Case
A business case is
a set of lies that
make management
decide what we
want them to decide
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19. Example of an integrated environment
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