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So of course, I am going to totally ignore him and talk about it anyways. While the USA keeps up on what is happening with the political race, which is important, one of the things that many people are starting to come to grips with is the idea that we are not doing well in relationship to the rest of the world. Call it an “innovation gap,” and how in some ways we are really getting our clocks cleaned, but how in others we are in ok shape.

So Robert posts this very interesting video, that is about 40 minutes long talking with the author if “Closing the Innovation Gap”, which as I listen to it, makes me think about what I am trying to do in education. We are lost if we do not get a grip on how we teach, what we teach, and we are lost if business does not learn how to deal with and use innovative people.

There is a lot of conversation about this, and the conversation is at levels where people can actually do something about it. The problem is developing the communities to support the innovative process, teach it, use it, create it, support it and love it for what it is worth. We seem to be moving backwards in science, research, and the creativity that those processes need. Not bashing anyone, not taking on things that people do not want to talk about.

Nevertheless, we are at a time where the system, the whole system in education needs to change, and the output of that education needs to be accepted by business. Business has to change to accommodate those who are coming out of the education system because they are already doing things that most businesses will not get, will have a hard time getting, and might be problematic for the older business models, organizations and power and control structures.
Watch the video, it is worth it.

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