I am on holiday, so instead of the usual weekly round-up, I am highlighting a Nature Network forum discussion of interest. The regular Nature Network round-up will return on Friday 15 August.
What’s both radical and incremental? Aimless and goal-oriented? Process and product? Innovation, which is the subject of a monthly series of Nature Commentaries. Specialists from business, economics, law, policy and research are contributing to the series in an attempt to define innovation, explore how it arises, and how it can be managed, encouraged and facilitated. The commentaries reveal that the idea of a single innovator or inventor is fading, and probe how innovation is increasingly the product of an entire ecology which includes both basic and applied research but also the venture-capital system and external motivating forces coming together in the right mix. Each of these Commentaries is being discussed at the Nature Network Opinion forum, so please join the conversation there about the Rochester Institute of Technology’s plan to foster innovation through academic-industrial partnerships. Do you think such partnerships will work? Future installments will be featured as they are published, so keep an eye on the Nature Network forum.