While Isaac Mao is talking about innovation at the national level, and specifically China, I think the same logic applies at corporate and institutional levels. Innovation, says Mao, is a process where "collective memory (Ψ) generating new coherent patterns (Φ), which reshape the institutional lattice (Ω), which then feeds back into memory with less entropy than before," and this requires "high Ψ diversity... high Ω permeability (and) fast Φ→Ψ integration" (or, in my own terms: diversity and autonomy, openness, and interaction, respectively). In other words, 'recursive emergence'. A discussion based on this follows, but I think it should be more nuanced. No government (or corporation or institution) is completely authoritarian or non-authoritarian, and they can be more or less authoritarian in different areas. And we are not (yet, at least) globally authoritarian. But the main point here is the definition of innovation, and I think this is not wrong, and I think a lot about how we should structure business, research and society follows from this.
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