{"id":296,"date":"2010-11-01T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=296"},"modified":"2010-11-01T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T21:30:33","slug":"innovation-and-govts-you-cannot-mandate-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and Govts &#8211; you cannot mandate innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From BusinessWeek comes this pertinent observation about innovation.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;s at a national level, or a corporate level, you have to let go a little in order to create a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Governments can&#8217;t mandate or manufacture innovation, no matter how much they invest. Clusters happen where like-minded entrepreneurs congregate, start risky ventures, and learn from one another other by networking. Innovation is a by-product of this synergy and experimentation. What is needed is less government control, not more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/oct2010\/tc20101015_241433.htm\">Okinawa&#8217;s Doomed Innovation Experiment &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BusinessWeek comes this pertinent observation about innovation.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;s at a national level, or a corporate level, you have to let go a little in order to create a lot: Governments can&#8217;t mandate or manufacture innovation, no matter how much they invest. Clusters happen where like-minded entrepreneurs congregate, start risky ventures, and learn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}