Comments on: From Unnovation to Innovation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-unnovation-to-innovation/2009/06/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Dan https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-unnovation-to-innovation/2009/06/09/comment-page-1#comment-415015 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:24:33 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=3421#comment-415015 To say that innovation is a new idea that results in an economic outcome is like trying to solve one equation with 4 unknowns (what is: new, authentic, meaningful, value)- impossible by man or machine. This definitions for sets us up for failure before we even start. When “your” innovation does finally roll off an assembly line, it can only be viewed as such in retrospect. The mainstream definition for innovation is in fact the mother of all unnovation.

The thing rolling off an assembly line is an invention. All human acts and ideas that increase net human productivity are innovations. Money is backed by productivity. Debt is a promise against future productivity. Innovation is also promise against future productivity. While not all ideas become inventions, all inventions are built upon thousands of ideas.

Keep in mind that information, knowledge and innovation are deeply related as mathematical derivatives. Innovation is derived from knowledge and is proportional to the rate of change in knowledge. Likewise, knowledge is derived from information and is proportional to the rate of change of information. Therefore, if I want to identify the fact of innovation, I simply seek the rate of change of knowledge as a proxy.

The mainstream definition for innovation does not permit analysis as any good definition should and ought to be re investigated.

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