Legal and administrative norms regulating the operation of the society and large industrial and economic organisms use - out of necessity - mechanisms and activities that restrain freedom, which conditions the climate favorable to innovation.
Innovation, i.e. creative activity (in the field of TECHNOLOGY) does not fall within the framework of existing, functioning at a given time frames, structures or relationships. It often occurs contrary to accepted norms and conditions. The commonly accepted norms are necessarily “outdated” because they are based on “old” knowledge that could not take into account new solutions or conditions. A special example is the period of switching TECHNOLOGY to new ecological solutions, forced by the state of the natural environment and that created by man.
At the first stage of recognition, innovation requires a particularly large cognitive depth enabling visionary assessment of the state of affairs based on specific knowledge and competences that (due to the lack of appropriate experience, methods or appropriately flexible decision-making processes) are beyond the reach of “typical organizations”.
The biggest difficulty is filtering innovations from the information noise - which requires unrestricted and bold circumvention of prevailing (unintentional) restrictions or conditions of the existing state of knowledge. In order to effectively use the potential of “chaos of innovation”, a method, insight and experience are required, which provide the basis for “catching” objects and mechanisms that are lost, imperceptible in chaos even to recognized authorities.
The most indeterminate (but also potentially the most fruitful) is the stage of catching innovation out of chaos, i.e. the stage preceding the “processing” of innovation. Reconciliation of the field of innovation is based on highly specialized and relatively small organizational units that can move freely in difficult terrain without excessive restrictions and inertia of large structures, while guaranteeing effective risk reduction, including image and material losses.
prof. Zbigniew T. Kuźnicki, November 2019