Kevin Kelly, in What Technology Wants, writes on the characteristics of living organisms that make biology useful to us humans and the reasons why life can sustain its own evolution indefinitely.
According to Kelly, “living organisms and ecosystems are characterised by a high degree of indirect collaboration, transparency of function, decentralisation, flexibility and adaptability, redundancy of roles, and natural efficiency".
I think there are some interesting parallels here from Kelly’s case for what makes a useful technology that can be carried over to the consideration of the characteristics of a successful and self-sustaining innovation ecosystem:
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