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The origins of good ideas (Steven Johnson)

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The origins of good ideas

The Genius of the Tinkerer

Steven Johnson, in The Wall Street Journal (2010): good ideas are bricolage, networks of other ideas put together with the parts at hand. His example is the NeoNurture incubator designed by Design That Matters for the developing world, built from car parts so that local mechanics can repair it.

Source: Steven Johnson, The Wall Street Journal

First published on LinkedIn on October 2, 2010. View the original post

Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.