Enabling Innovation: Technology- and System-Level Approaches that Capitalize on Complexity

Abstract

In this paper I describe the learning selection approach to enabling innovation that capitalizes on the complexity of social systems at different scales of analysis. In the first part of the paper I describe the approach and how it can be used to guide the early stages of setting up a grassroots innovation process. In the second part of the paper I look at how the learn selection model can be used top-down to guide research investments to trigger large-scale systemic change.