How Do You Transform Good Research Into Great Innovations?

Co.Design has published an essay wrote by Jon Kolko, the Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas. Jon Kolko gives tips to transform good research into great innovations. Actually, it’s pretty easy to get information, but the tricky part is to do a great synthesis in order to reuse what you collect during the research.

So, if you want to do so : get out of the laptop, identify and celebrate patterns and anomalies, and then, build a model of something, anything. Jon Kolko goes deeper in his book Exposing the magic of design : A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis.