Sunday, October 14, 2007

How Innovators Connect

Some say it’s all about the idea. Some categorize it as an invention. Others question the validity of an innovation that is based on imitation. Irrespective of the view one may take, we can all agree that Innovation is paramount to our existence. Without it, we would be living rather stagnant lives.

How Innovators Connect is an attempt to showcase Innovation through the experiences of about 40 successful innovators in Silicon Valley and India. Among the various conversations with Innovators who’ve made a difference, there was a resounding confirmation that the process of innovation demands connectivity, and cannot be performed in a vacuum. We discovered that each of the innovators we spoke with shared connectivity traits. And, although they all had different approaches to connecting and valued different types of connections, there was a common set of principles shared by everyone. We’ve used these core principles as the framework with which to explore the process of innovation and to share some very thought-provoking stories of innovation.

Rohit Agarwal, techTribe's CEO and Founder, is co-authoring an upcoming book, How Innovators Connect, with Patty Brown, former executive editor of Optimize and Information Week Magazines. The book is scheduled to be released in March (and will be exclusively available in India). This Tribe will contain the latest and greatest updates on the book (as we make available select passages and notes that you might enjoy reading). We encourage you to ask questions or otherwise interact with Rohit on topics featured in the book. Rohit is currently doing a lecture series around the book.

The book contains examples from the nearly 40 interviews that he and Patty did with Sillicon Valley and Indian entrepreneurs to draw upon their experiences as they went about innovating and set up some very successful and some not-so-successful companies. There are lessons to be learnt, esp. at this juncture when we are seeing the first generation of entrepreneurs in India.

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