Citizen Sector

Wisdom of the Crowds? -Robert Q Benedict

“The first few years of the 21st century has brought a deluge of information into the public and with it, a deluge of opinion, truncated analysis, and a veritable flotsam and jetsam of smut, garbage, and things we seem utterly unable to live without. Are we consumers or participants in one of the most radical marketing shifts in history?" more...

Identifying Innovation -Robert Q Benedict

“In "The Evolving Web of Future Wealth" Stuart Kauffman, Stefan Thurner and Rudolf Hanel outline new thinking around innovation in economics borrowing heavily from evolutionary concepts of novelty and pre-adaptation. While novelty by its very nature makes mute discussion about how novelty comes about, it does beg the question how might one identify it when it does." more...