Blocking innovations

Yes, we need innovations that make our society more efficient, more reliable and also competitive on the global arena. In Hufvudstadsbladet on the 16th of November professor Tom Berglund discusses the need of setting aside different bureaucratic obstacles as well as diminishing jealousy when someone has his moment of ’heureka’. I couldn’t agree more. We often think that innovativeness is born in an arranged (=bureaucratic) setting where we decide or someone decides for us that this is the time and place for innovating. Instead of devoting your time too much to finding out how and where innovativeness takes place you should have a supporting process that gives the creative ideas positive energy and passes them on towards a stage where they can materialize. The biggest obstacle to innovativeness is definitely not money but those whining voices that block developing new ideas further at a too early stage. What we need are people ready to throw themselves into a state of imaginative, ingenious inventing. The best way of killing this state is to inject structure too early in the process of invention. So why do you want to structure ideas too early? Could it be that you are concerned of losing power and control over the process?