Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Teams at Work and Lives at Stake: How to Handle Fast-Paced Complexity

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There is a lot of research on how teams make disasters happen, and the answer is clear: teams use cues to make sense of the situation, and ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

A Paradox of Innovation: Those Who Do It May Be Ignored

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We are supposed to like innovations. They drive the world forward, with effects that range from the pleasant (like the camera on your phone)...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Open Innovation and Closed Minds: Why NASA Used Open Innovation Sometimes but Not Always

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Open innovation is heralded as a way to advance technology and product innovation quickly and cheaply. It is modeled on the open source sof...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Minimally Invasive Investment: How Ventures Interact with Investment Partners

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Of the many kinds of new businesses that are created every year, researchers and policy makers have been most interested in the ones that p...
Friday, December 1, 2017

When Nanotechnology Shrank: How Communities Police the Boundaries of Their Field

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It is ironic that I should write a post on how communities of science police the boundaries of their field shortly after writing a blog pos...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Improving Evidence Presentation: An Example and Some Tips

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This is an unusual blog post because it is on how to do research, not on what we have learned from research that has been done. Well, there...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Going Back and Doing Good: When Foreign Workers Return Home

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Here is an interesting contradiction: Some politicians say that relying less on foreign workers will make their nation more competitive, bu...