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Innovation to what end?

1/7/2014

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January 6, 2014 by Diane Ragsdale
Happy New Year! This is a condensed and slightly adapted version of a short talk I gave in October at an event called Blowup: Innovation in Extreme Scenarios, hosted by a hub organization called V2, located in Rotterdam.
INNOVATION TO WHAT END?
I predicted in an article I wrote in 2005 that “innovation” would become the next buzz word to emerge in US funding applications and I was right. Predicting the rise of innovation hardly required super human insight.  The whole world was striving to innovate—even before the great recession. And over the past few years the hunt for the next great product for the as yet untapped market has become ever-more-desperate.

Speaking of the recession, in 2008, Paul Light, a professor of public service at NYU wrote an article in which he speculated four possible futures for the subsidized sector in the US arising out of the recession:
  1. Rescue Fantasy: nonprofits are saved by significant increases in contributions;
  2. Withering Winterland: organizations starve themselves into a weakened organizational state;
  3. Arbritrary Winnowing: survival of the largest, oldest, and best connected organizations; and
  4. Transformation: a redesign of the sector that leaves it stronger, more vibrant, more sustainable, and more impactful.
At the end of the article, Light predicted that if we let the future take its course it would result in a Withering Winterland or Arbritrary Winnowing and noted that the benefits of transformation could only by reaped deliberate choice. The same prediction could have been made about the future state of the Dutch cultural sector following the government cuts in 2010.
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