{"id":3482,"date":"2017-01-31T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:19:45","slug":"knowledge-for-innovation-learning-and-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2017\/01\/31\/knowledge-for-innovation-learning-and-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Knowledge for Innovation: Learning and Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p><p>[et_pb_section bb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime;][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.2.1&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3462 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans.jpg\" alt=\"origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans\" width=\"346\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans.jpg 793w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans-300x242.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans-768x619.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans-480x387.jpg 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans-560x451.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/03\/knowledge-for-innovation-internal-knowledge-flow\/\">Internal Knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/10\/knowledge-for-innovation-trends-and-environment-for-innovation-deployment-horizon\/\">Time Horizon<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/17\/knowledge-for-innovation-frontier-sciences\/\">Frontier Sciences<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/24\/knowledge-for-innovation-academic-knowledge\/\">Academic Knowledge<\/a>. Here we deal with <em>Learning and Experience<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Learning and experience, the accumulated knowledge carried by an individual, is the box shown to the left of academic knowledge in the figure. It is the sum of an individual\u2019s education, which also belongs in the area of academic knowledge, and experience. As such, it is a complex collection peculiar to each individual. When trying to understand and explain the mysterious mechanisms that made them follow a path that nobody ever followed before them, many inventors refer to some long-ago, fortuitous event that left a mark on his or her mind.<\/p>\n<p>A person who has been exposed to a wide variety of circumstances, including travel, \u00a0and various cultures, will have a larger collection of knowledge waiting in his or her \u201cattic\u201d for a fortuitous occasion when it will be reactivated as a creative process calls for it. Furthermore, a team of people who have accumulated various educations and life experiences will have access to a larger base of knowledge and will therefore be more likely to generate innovative concepts.<\/p>\n<h3>Example of the fire piston<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3485 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston.jpg\" alt=\"4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston\" width=\"213\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston.jpg 541w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston-300x220.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston-480x352.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>Rudolf Diesel has always acknowledged that his invention of the sparkless internal combustion engine was directly inspired by a demonstration he witnessed while a student at the University of Munich. He saw his professor of thermodynamics ignite a fire by using a primitive fire piston. The traditional method of some tribes in Oceania for starting a fire is to violently compress air inside a wooden tube with a tight piston, a fire piston. Years later, when Diesel was trying to simplify the design of the internal combustion engine, he remembered this piece of ancestral knowledge.<\/p>\n<h3>Example of the Velcro<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3487 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory.jpg\" alt=\"5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory\" width=\"265\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory.jpg 893w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory-480x270.jpg 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory-560x315.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/>George de Mestral was intrigued by seeds, commonly called burrs, attached to his dog\u2019s fur. Burrs, the envelopes of fruits, are dispersed by animals (this is called epizoochory) enabling reproduction at great distances. In his microscope, de Mestral saw tiny hooks at the end of these burrs. Such hooks were already shown in the drawings in various botany books. The difference was that for de Mestral\u2014an engineer who specialized in weaving technology\u2014the knowledge came by serendipity. As soon as he saw the burrs\u2019 tiny hook, the logic was straightforward. This \u201cdiscovery\u201d was the first step in the invention of the product now known as Velcro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2612 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/innovation-intelligence-amazon.png\" alt=\"innovation-intelligence-amazon\" width=\"203\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was initially\u00a0published in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\">Innovation Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(2015). It is the second\u00a0section of the first chapter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.14&Prime; prev_text=\u00a0\u00bbPrevious article\u00a0\u00bb next_text=\u00a0\u00bbNext article\u00a0\u00bb in_same_term=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb background_color=\u00a0\u00bb#3d59a1&Prime; title_font=\u00a0\u00bb|800|||||||\u00a0\u00bb title_text_color=\u00a0\u00bb#ffffff\u00a0\u00bb title_font_size=\u00a0\u00bb15px\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb10px|10px|10px|10px\u00a0\u00bb border_radii=\u00a0\u00bbon|5px|5px|5px|5px\u00a0\u00bb border_width_all=\u00a0\u00bb1px\u00a0\u00bb border_color_all=\u00a0\u00bb#3d59a1&Prime; saved_tabs=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb custom_margin=\u00a0\u00bb30px|||\u00a0\u00bb global_module=\u00a0\u00bb8506&Prime; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about Internal Knowledge, Time Horizon, and Frontier Sciences\u00a0and Academic Knowledge. Here we deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><img class=\" wp-image-3462 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans.jpg\" alt=\"origin_of_knowledge-for-innovation-presans\" width=\"346\" height=\"279\" \/>In the previous articles of this series, we wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/03\/knowledge-for-innovation-internal-knowledge-flow\/\">Internal Knowledge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/10\/knowledge-for-innovation-trends-and-environment-for-innovation-deployment-horizon\/\">Time Horizon<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/17\/knowledge-for-innovation-frontier-sciences\/\">Frontier Sciences<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/2017\/01\/24\/knowledge-for-innovation-academic-knowledge\/\">Academic Knowledge<\/a>. Here we deal with <em>Learning and Experience<\/em>.<\/p><p>Learning and experience, the accumulated knowledge carried by an individual, is the box shown to the left of academic knowledge in the figure. It is the sum of an individual\u2019s education, which also belongs in the area of academic knowledge, and experience. As such, it is a complex collection peculiar to each individual. When trying to understand and explain the mysterious mechanisms that made them follow a path that nobody ever followed before them, many inventors refer to some long-ago, fortuitous event that left a mark on his or her mind.<\/p><p>A person who has been exposed to a wide variety of circumstances, including travel, \u00a0and various cultures, will have a larger collection of knowledge waiting in his or her \u201cattic\u201d for a fortuitous occasion when it will be reactivated as a creative process calls for it. Furthermore, a team of people who have accumulated various educations and life experiences will have access to a larger base of knowledge and will therefore be more likely to generate innovative concepts.<\/p><h3>Example of the fire piston<\/h3><p><img class=\" wp-image-3485 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston.jpg\" alt=\"4_rudolf_diesel_fire_piston\" width=\"213\" height=\"156\" \/>Rudolf Diesel has always acknowledged that his invention of the sparkless internal combustion engine was directly inspired by a demonstration he witnessed while a student at the University of Munich. He saw his professor of thermodynamics ignite a fire by using a primitive fire piston. The traditional method of some tribes in Oceania for starting a fire is to violently compress air inside a wooden tube with a tight piston, a fire piston. Years later, when Diesel was trying to simplify the design of the internal combustion engine, he remembered this piece of ancestral knowledge.<\/p><h3>Example of the Velcro<\/h3><p><img class=\" wp-image-3487 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory.jpg\" alt=\"5_george_de_mestral_epizoochory\" width=\"265\" height=\"149\" \/>George de Mestral was intrigued by seeds, commonly called burrs, attached to his dog\u2019s fur. Burrs, the envelopes of fruits, are dispersed by animals (this is called epizoochory) enabling reproduction at great distances. In his microscope, de Mestral saw tiny hooks at the end of these burrs. Such hooks were already shown in the drawings in various botany books. The difference was that for de Mestral\u2014an engineer who specialized in weaving technology\u2014the knowledge came by serendipity. As soon as he saw the burrs\u2019 tiny hook, the logic was straightforward. This \u201cdiscovery\u201d was the first step in the invention of the product now known as Velcro.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\"><img class=\"wp-image-2612 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/innovation-intelligence-amazon.png\" alt=\"innovation-intelligence-amazon\" width=\"203\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><em>This article was initially\u00a0published in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Innovation-Intelligence-Commoditization-Digitalization-Acceleration\/dp\/1326125826\">Innovation Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(2015). It is the second\u00a0section of the first chapter.<\/em><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[592,643,861,981,1013,1711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}