Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

By James A. Tebbe. 2011

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Blended learning: A dangerous idea? (2013, background): “The first important finding documents a growing sense of agency in the student population, finding them using what Steven Johnson (2010) termed a “liquid network” for sharing their beliefs about the quality of their blended learning experiences.”
The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus 1 (2012, background): “…adaptive systems have recognized the importance of cross scale dynamics (Kaufmann and Tödtling 2001, Gunderson and Holling 2002, Smith et al. 2005, Johnson 2010), few have articulated as clearly as Giddens the complex but ordinary process of re-creating and altering the rules and relationships…”
Citizen Participation, Open Innovation, and Crowdsourcing (2013, methodology): “Writing about the origin of ‘‘good’’ ideas, Steven Johnson (2010, 22) notes that ‘‘. . . we are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them . . . Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine.”
Footnotes to Research on Management Innovation (2014, background): “For example, the “double-entry accounting” introduced in the late 15th century can be regarded as an important management innovation (Johnson, 2010).”