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| Title |
Serendipity and strategy in rapid innovation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature Communications, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-017-02042-w |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
T. M. A. Fink, M. Reeves, R. Palma, R. S. Farr |
| Abstract |
Innovation is to organizations what evolution is to organisms: it is how organizations adapt to environmental change and improve. Yet despite advances in our understanding of evolution, what drives innovation remains elusive. On the one hand, organizations invest heavily in systematic strategies to accelerate innovation. On the other, historical analysis and individual experience suggest that serendipity plays a significant role. To unify these perspectives, we analysed the mathematics of innovation as a search for designs across a universe of component building blocks. We tested our insights using data from language, gastronomy and technology. By measuring the number of makeable designs as we acquire components, we observed that the relative usefulness of different components can cross over time. When these crossovers are unanticipated, they appear to be the result of serendipity. But when we can predict crossovers in advance, they offer opportunities to strategically increase the growth of the product space. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 154 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 25 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 7% |
| Japan | 6 | 4% |
| Canada | 5 | 3% |
| France | 5 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 3% |
| Spain | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 2% |
| Singapore | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 26 | 17% |
| Unknown | 63 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 120 | 78% |
| Scientists | 29 | 19% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 137 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 137 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
| Researcher | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 12% |
| Professor | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 29 | 21% |
| Unknown | 28 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting | 21 | 15% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 12 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 11 | 8% |
| Engineering | 11 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 32 | 23% |
| Unknown | 42 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 135. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 March 2023.
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