
For a long time people felt that that innovation is a random event and cannot be managed. Realising they needed to become more proactive with innovating, people then started using very prescriptive processes such as stage-gate to manage innovation – only to find that anything remotely tended to get killed right at the outset. In his second article applying concepts of physics to the field of innovation Álvaro Urech proposes that innovation is neither random nor deterministic and invites us to consider that it is chaotic. Read his article here.