3 Fascinating TED Talks on Innovation
“Everyone’s using the word [innovation] but I do not think it means what they think it means.” That’s an intriguing opening gambit of a TED Talk on innovation by Carl Bass the president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc.
TED Talks provide rocket fuel for the brain, a series of short and inspiring discourses covering a wide range of scientific and cultural topics. Here are some of the talks on innovation that have caught our attention:
1) The New Rules of Innovation – Carl Bass
Memorable quote: “Innovation is fundamentally not a corporate phenomenon.”
2) India’s invisible innovation – Nirmalya Kumar, professor of Marketing at the London Business School
Memorable moment: Professor Kumar describes four types of “invisible innovation” currently coming out of India:
- Product innovation
- Outsourcing innovation (many companies are contracting Indian businesses to do product development work)
- Process innovation
- Management innovation
3) Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson, best-selling author of six books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience
Memorable quote:
“The liquid network is where you have lots of different ideas that are together, different backgrounds, different interests jostling with each other, bouncing off each other; that environment is in fact the environment that leads to innovation.”
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