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Tag: Innovation
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innovation by watching evolution
Nature has come-up with elegant solutions of today’s problems.
Janine Benyus tells us about a research field that is called Biomimicry. In this field they look at strategies nature has come-up with to solve different problems, just by trail and error during the process of evolution. Let evolution work for us. www.asknature.org is a website one can post different strategies that can be used by humans to solve problems of teoday in an elegant and natural way that keeps the planet eurth in its equilibrium.
Besides that one can innovate just by changing perspective. This talk is about the evolutionary perspective of grass.
This talk is about the aquatic-ape. A different perspective on the evolution of the homo sapience.
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Incentives for innovation, based on intrinsic motivation
Dan Pink spoke on TED.com about the way traditional businesses are build is often still with the old mindset from the industrial era using incentives like the “carrot and the stick” model to increase production performance. However for more complex tasks people get paralysed when put under pressure to perform by higher rewards. Rewarding systems work better when the task is simple and the details are well scripted, like in repetitive manufacturing work.
In this clip he explains the concept, and the statistics behind it.
Since I am working at SURFfoundation, I have noticed the same behaviour. People do not want to finish a project because of the large amount of money you put in to it, but because of the intrinsic motivation and a high level of autonomy. SURFfoundation subsidises innovative research projects, half paid by SURF, the other half by universities, but even on an unbalanced budgets (say 20% SURF, 80% universities), people are prepared to step in the project. Even when there is no money incentive at all, they want to work together with different universities to tackle a problem, because their intrinsic motivation is high. The only thing SURFfoundation has to do is to facilitate cooperation infrastructure (meeting rooms and synchronising agenda’s).
Daniel Pink points out that for higher performance on complex tasks the business model should thrive on intrinsic motivation. The elements that create intrinsic motivation are, according to Daniel Pink: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. This results in a completely new business model, abbreviated by ROWE (Results Only Work Environment).
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New ways of innovation in the Higher Education and Research in the Netherlands
Below you will find a thesis I have witten for the MasterClass course Innovation Management. This thesis is about how SURFfoundation (the organisation I work for) can improve the commitment of innovation of every employee throughout the organisation of every single University and Research institute that is a member of SURFfoundation.
Unfortunately for the English readers, this has been written in Dutch. For the Dutch readers, enjoy reading! 🙂
There is a Disclaimer: this thesis is only fictional, and does not reflect the way SURFfoundation is moving ahead in the future. So no rights or claims can be made or what so ever based on this thesis written below.
New ways for SURFfoundation to innovate in the Dutch Higher Education and Research field (in Dutch)