{"id":63,"date":"2006-09-18T05:50:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=63"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:18:28","slug":"innovation-at-the-fringes-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Innovation at the fringes of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the really interesting innovations don&#8217;t usually come from the core of a sector or industry, they come from the edges.  The edges are places where people either don&#8217;t know or don&#8217;t care about the rules and paradigms at the core. <\/p>\n<p>Next week at Duke (in the States) there&#8217;s a symposium where thirteen of the USAs &#8220;top scientists&#8221; will share their thoughts on emerging great ideas in science and how today\u2019s discoveries might change medicine.<\/p>\n<p>How does this relate to the fringes?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think science\u2019s next great idea will come from a youngster who stumbles upon it by asking interesting questions,&#8221; says Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukenews.duke.edu\/2006\/08\/bigidea.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, the really interesting innovations don&#8217;t usually come from the core of a sector or industry, they come from the edges. The edges are places where people either don&#8217;t know or don&#8217;t care about the rules and paradigms at the core. Next week at Duke (in the States) there&#8217;s a symposium where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}