Integrative Innovation
Description: HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing
I remember my first Christmas. I was thirty-six back then.
On a dark, frosty morning of December 15, 1990, my family (my wife and two little kids, aged two and three) and I left St. Petersburg, Russia, and flew to France. I had a six-month research grant to work in a lab in Orsay, a scientific hub southwest of Paris.
The first few days in France were stressful. We moved into a rented apartment, opened utility accounts, and learned ways to move around and buy groceries—none of this being easy, given our lack of French. Besides, our son, apparently shocked by a sudden change in the environment, stopped eating normal food and subsisted on baguettes and sugar.
Integrative Innovation