My presentation at the 5th I

1. Creating ChAos!
Tathagat Varma
http://managewell.net
13-14 Jan 2012

2. So, why did Western
economies grow so much
and so fast from the time
of Industrial Revolution ?

3. Why?
• 1790: First US Patent issued
• 1860: Japan studies and
copies US Patent system
Conclusion
• There is a connection
between Patents,
Technology and Economic
Growth

4. …Throughout human history, innovation has been a
powerful force for transformation. This arguably holds true
now more than ever… In high-income countries, studies
have estimated that innovation accounts for as much as
80% of economy-wide growth in productivity. Research at
the firm level has shown that firms that innovate
outperform their non-innovating peers.
– The Changing Face of Innovation, WIPO Report 2011

6. Global Innovation Index 2011
Rank
Country
#1
Switzerland
#2
Sweden
#7
USA
#10
UK
#12
Germany
#14
Israel
#29
China
#47
Brazil
#62
India

7. Pass Pass Pass Pass
Pass Pass Pass …....
…FAIL !!!

8. School
College
Job
Performance
Performance
Performance
“Literacy”
“Logic”
“Creativity?”
“Facts”
“Hard Thinking”
“Innovation?”
Creativity is now as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status
– Sir Ken Robinson, TED2006

9. “…Our education system does a fairly good job
of developing hard thinking skills, but there is not
much to develop soft thinking. As a matter of
fact, much of our education is geared toward
eliminating soft thinking, or at best, teaching us
to regard it as an inferior tool.”
– Roger von Oech,
A Whack on the Side of the Head

10. • Soft thinking has many of the characteristics on
the ‘soft’ list: it is metaphorical, approximate,
humorous, playful, and capable of dealing with
contradiction.
• Hard thinking, on the other hand, tends to be
more logical, precise, exact, specific and
consistent

11. ...I was once teaching thinking to
a class made up entirely of Nobel
Prize winners.
Only one of those present had
arrived at his or her breakthrough
idea by systematic analysis. Every
other person had reached the idea
as a result of chance, mistake,
anomaly or something going
wrong.”

12. A person with high intelligence can take a position on
a subject and then use their intelligence to defend that
position very ably. The better the defense of that
position, the less does that person see any need to
consider alternatives or listen to others. That is not
good thinking.
- Edward de Bono, Intelligence Information Thinking

13. IS DOING
“MORE OF SAME”
AN OPTION?

14. It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.
– Demming