Meso-innovations: Creating Serendipity for Emergent Ideas

Jimmy Y. Jia
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Jimmy Y. Jia: George Washington University

Chapter 19 in The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook, 2020, pp 197-206 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Meso-innovations are the stereotypical “innovation” most people think of—the smartphone, the self-driving automobile, a possible HIV vaccine, and so forth. By the time these technologies are presented to the public, they seem like giant leaps forward. Yet they start their lives as new links created between concepts, people, or fields and take years of arduous incremental improvements. To maximize the moments of insights, one needs to create intentional environments for serendipity to occur. To the outsider, meso-innovations look like playing, because it is. The properties of having fun share a great deal with the process of innovating. Whether inventing new frameworks, new products, and services, or adapting existing ones to contemporary priorities, energy strategists will need to fill gaps and opportunities with meso-innovations.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36838-8_19

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