The Ecology of Innovation
Mostly in how it relates to the incoming Obama administration :
(excerpt from article):
Export rules or immigration restrictions on scientists and engineers draw little public attention, but they are an important part of what some analysts call “the ecology of innovation,” factors in society that inhibit or enhance the development of useful and profitable technologies.Searching the Times I also came across this article about William Wulf.
What the phrase relates to, in the above articles, is the socio-political environment required to promote capitalist styled innovation (a.k.a new ideas that can make you money).
The phrase caught my eye because it sums up what this blog is about, except the true definition of an innovatory ecology is so much greater than how it is described above.
It makes me want to describe the much broader meaning of the phrase (we'll see if that happens). It also strikes me that there is a parallel between how this phrase is currently used and the larger environmental melee.
The phrase is used to promote a desired result. The ecology is a thing to be mastered. The problem with this is, of course, that an ecological system is multi-faceted. Promote one part and another part becomes unbalanced.
Promoting innovation is a good thing, but limiting this promotion for the purpose of economic profit is simply promoting disaster.
