A review of the book "Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson. Prepared by NJCU graduate student Gillian Buonanno

1. Where Good Ideas Come From:The Natural History of InnovationSteven Johnson A review of the book and additional thoughts of Gillian Buonanno

2. Web/City/Coffeehouse

3. Get “open”

4. The Adjacent Possible Innovation based on the available parts/knowledge Apollo 13

5. Parts The parts must exist first, whether they are mechanical, intellectual, or physical.

9. Lingers in the back of the mind for unspecified amount of time

10. Making new connections, filtering through ripples (networks)

13. Studied classical languages as a young child: Hebrew, Greek and Latin

14. In preparation for being a minister, he studied French, Italian, German, Chaldean, Syrian & Arabic

16. Enquire within cyclopedia

17. While working at CERN laboratory, began organizing the overwhelming amount of information and personnel contact, calling it Enquire.

19. Anchors and unlikely connections Anchors are the research, notes, conversations with colleagues Unlikely connections happen when we take a break, go for a walk, soak in the hot tub, bake cookies

20. Error Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

21. Two important scientific errors Joseph Priestley Alexander Fleming

22. Exaptation Gutenberg An idea, a technology, an organism, is used to solve an unrelated problem, thus creating a completely new genre or technology.

23. Platforms An environment that encourages hunches to be connected and built upon.

24. The Fourth Quadrant

25. Resources http://historyofjournalism.onmason.com/2009/10/13/a-cup-of-news/ http://playfootballright.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8613766.stm http://www.fairhaven.edu/fh/Special%20Services%20(Pre%20K%20-%208)/Faculty%20Pages/Betty%20Crowley,%20Speech%20and%20Language%20Services/ http://www.computer-wallpaper-backgrounds.com/cool-background-wallpapers/water-ripples-background.php http://www.foxsaver.com/public/picture/599874888 http://www.moleskinerie.com/2005/12/how_to_start_an.html http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/aout/1.htm http://www.visualphotos.com/image/2x4394239/spider_web_with_dew_drops_against_blue_sky

26. Resources http://people.ucalgary.ca/~phichan/gallery/index.html http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds-6/tryst-coffeehouse http://blog.solutionexplorers.com/page/2/ http://www.patentplaques.com/blog/?p=524 http://smartlivingcollection.org/2011/01/26/movable-type-press/ http://www.naturealmanac.com/archive/beaver_dams/beaver_dams.html http://memeburn.com/2010/11/where-good-ideas-come-from/