How to promote organizational innovation.

3 June 2009 • Education, innovation, Lawrence Lessig, organization, schools, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

I’m reading Lawrence Lessig’s The Future of Ideas at the moment. It’s excellent. 🙂

After charting the history of the Internet, and especially relating to its ‘open’ nature after the government’s relationship with AT&T, he explains that there are three ‘layers’ to the Internet:

The Physical layer
The Code layer
The Content layer

If all three layers are controlled then this ‘chills’ innovation. I agree.

It made me think about innovation within organizations and I knocked up this table to help clarify my thinking:

3 layers

Whaddya reckon? 😀