Freeman Centre Seminar supports CENTRIM's New Innovation Agenda Work
Mostly innovation is described as a tool for making economic progress. CENTRIM sees a bigger agenda.
Innovation for the World
For more than five years CENTRIM has worked on developing insights into how new thinking on the management of innovation could help the world to cope with its vast problems. These include enormous environmental challenges and, in addition, there are many intractable social problems that need to be addressed. Frequently the focus has been on defining the scope and scale of problems, not overcoming them. Fortunately, as CENTRIM has identified, the methods that have been developed to manage innovation can be re-purposed to address a wide range of 21st century problems.
On the 25th November, in a Freeman Centre Seminar, a large group gathered to hear Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation analyse the flaws in the policies that drive current institutions, leading them to adopt unsustainable policies. The analysis confirmed one of CENTRIM's core beliefs: that the tools and techniques of innovation management are of growing importance as they provide practical roadmaps for creating a better future.
