Just Addicted or Condemned to Innovate ?

Arpit Malik (1 minute)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uh1KxcpWz0

After a brief exploration of main ideas concerning creativity and innovation, I will explore the place and importance of open innovation in a knowledge based global society (economy), in order to formulate «the big question» : is innovation possible in politics ?

New Scientist October 2005

“Creativity appears to follow much the same cognitive and emotional process whichever discipline you are working in. As part of our special coverage this week ("Creative Minds"), the historian of science Arthur Miller describes how both Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Pablo Picasso's ideas on cubism were motivated by the same quest: to understand and characterise the nature of space. He also shows how scientists and artists regularly use each other's ideas for inspiration.”

Open minded and patient

• Creative people are intelligent, in terms of IQ tests at least, but only averagely or juste above• They place high value on aesthetic qualities, have broad interests,

providing : lots of resources to draw on, and knowledge to recombine into novel solutions. They have an attraction to complexity• Creativity come to those who wait ; there are two stages : inspiration

and elaboration, each characterised by different states of mind (so sleep and relaxation can help people to be creative)• Constraints have a key role in creativity (« discoverability ») ; there is

no creativity in a society of easiness

Motivated, confident, curious

• Time pressures, financial pressures and hard earned bonus schemes do not boost workplace crativity : internal motivation, not coercion, produces the best work• To be really creative, one needs strong social networks and trusting

relationships : to have at least one person in his (her) life who doesn’t think you’re completely nut !• One of the most important things is immersion. You need to spend a

long time thinking hard and getting nowhere in the hoping that at some later stage you’ll have what feels like a bright idea ; errors are important in this process

Favorable factors for innovation

Transversality

Team diversity

Multidisciplinary teams

Multiculturalism, multilingualism

«The Creative Class» Richard Florida Talent, Technology, Tolerance

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson (4 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Open innovation

Innovation is the result of many different skills. One individual will be very rarely "innovative“, at best he will be inventive or creative. It is the combination of the creativity of team members that leads to innovation. A radical (disruptive) innovation challenges the widespread accepted mental model.

• « if we create the most and best ideas, if we make best use of internal and extrenal ideas, we can win »• « bulding a better (business)

model is better than getting to the market first »• « we don’t have to originate the

research to profit from it »

Innovation in politics ?(www.politicalinnovation.org)

(2010 – 2012 then stopped ! Why ?)

Benoît Godin, Montreal, Project for the Intellectual History of

Innovation (2010)“Together with religion, politics is the social sphere in which ‘innovation’ as a concept first came to be widely used in the Western world. The Reformation was a key period in this development. ‘Innovator’ became a derogatory label applied to every deviant individual. Among the latter, the “innovators of State” were one of the targets of innovation critics”

“We may have forgotten it these days, but innovation is a political and essentially contested concept.”“Despite this political connotation, there are no entries on innovation in dictionaries of political thought and studies of political ideas. To be sure, change, under different aspects, is widely studied in the literature on intellectual history – revolution, crisis, progress, modernity …”

YES YES YES

Locally it works….WHY ?Exemples : Nice, Rennes, Stuttgart…..

In case of national parties, only under constraintSome exemples :Hungary ; Fidesz (2010)Italy (The Berlusconi story)Belgium (2010 -2011) and Germany (2013)Italy again (Beppe Grillo and Cinque Stelle)