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Date : 3/8/2007
Start Time : 04:00 PM
End Time : 05:00 PM
Title : Learning from Expert Innovators (Robert Austin)
Description : Harvard University
Computer Science Colloquium Series
33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Colloquium
Learning from Expert Innovators
Rob Austin
Harvard Business School
Thursday, March 8, 2007
4:00PM
Maxwell Dworkin G125
(Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)
Abstract
In this seminar I’ll present interim results of a multiyear study of the
processes, principles and practices used by people (and groups) acclaimed as expert
innovators within their specific contexts. For the purposes of this study, we have defined
innovation broadly, as activity that leads to the creation of valuable novelty, leaving
open the criteria by which value is determined. This allows us to consider empirically
whether there are commonalities in the processes, management principles, and practices in
use across a range of fields in which innovation is considered important, from the arts,
to design, entertainment, media, and even scientific research. Our methodology is
inductive and case-based. Our objective is to advance general theoretical understanding of
work and management approaches that repeatedly generate valuable novelty, and to relate
the emerging theory to theoretical constructs in adjacent areas of research, such as
business innovation, the psychology
of individual creativity, and the social psychology of creativity. We find numerous
categories of commonality that transcend fields of application.
Host: Professor Michael Smith
Location : Maxwell Dworkin G125 (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge
Area)
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