WHAT
IS INNOVERSITY?
The word innoversity (innovation + diversity) was framed by Susanne Justesen (founder
of Innoversity Network)
in her working paper in 2001 and explains how diversity may be used to foster
and spur creativity and innovation within groups, organisations and Communities
of Practice (...more)
WHAT
IS INNOVATION?
Innovation is about turning opportunity into new ideas and of putting
these into widely used practice. In other words, innovation is about the
creation of new knowledge, which – when implemented into a product or a
practice – will lead to changes, radical changes... (...more)
WHAT
IS DIVERSITY?
Diversity is a about being different. Diversity is a social construction used
for describing a setting in which where members are characterised as being
different from each other in terms of both mental models, perspectives,
professions, ways to approach issues etc. (...more)
WHAT
IS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE?
They are groups of people informally bound by their shared competence and mutual
interest in a given practice, which makes it natural for them to share their
individual experiences and knowledge in an informal and creative way (...more)
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