Comments on: Unlocking the Power of Innovation Ecosystems: A Pathway to Sustained Growth and Impact

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Visualizing the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:04:06 +0000

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By: @paul4innovating

@paul4innovating — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 07:04:13 +0000

In reply to Paul O’Connor.

Paul, firstly thanks for your feedback. Like you, I agree a light-bulb visual “gives off” different reactions. Arguably that is the accepted starting point, forming the idea, that illuminating moment although there is a lot more before the insight to get to that point. I will change the visual; I debated it myself, but to be honest, I liked the visual and perhaps forgot what I was conveying in a complex system- thanks.
Secondly, the agents are, as you say quite rightly themselves, “complex systems (or beasts!). I wrote a three-part series on what is needed for cross-collaboration. For instance https://paul4innovating.com/2023/04/06/specific-skills-and-toolkits-are-needed-for-cross-sector-innovation-ecosystem-collaborations/
The whole orchestration (another post) and governance (again a post) trying to convey the complexity, differences and needed alignment. The trouble as you well know we may start agreeing but along the way serious differences occur and either it descends into chaos or has a resolution system but so many fail to see the need for these safety mechanisms to be in place from the beginning.
Do appreciate your feedback Paul
All the best

By: Paul O'Connor

Paul O'Connor — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:16:58 +0000

Hello Paul,
Thank you for your advocacy of innovation ecosystems. I can tell by your thoughts that you see innovation ecosystems as complex, dispositional, and adaptive… not as its parts and forces (agents) being directly causal. From the complex systems perspective, I see two things you may wish to ponder.
1. Should you use mechanical gears (directly causal) inside your innovation light bulb? I personally question whether I, just like all other innovation contributors, should use the light bulb. The light bulb relates to forming a good idea, not a complex system’s outcome emergence (flow.) Perhaps the visuals you use may push against your message.
2. The performance of the innovation ecosystem and the influence on this complex system gained by the heuristics you lay out will be dependent on the interface among its agents, i.e., each business, academic, government, or other entity. These agents are themselves complex systems. So long as the agents seek to master their efforts as a direct causal, influence problems will exist. The entire ecosystem will underperform and push toward chaotic flows. In its adaptive nature, the innovation ecosystem will tend to adapt its way around the poor alignment. Perhaps the agent entities should understand this before getting involved.

Thanks
Paul O’Connor