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http://intheempire.com/post/18790761332/dan-osullivan-itp 找到了一个itp的介绍。。
As Chair of ITP, Dan O’Sullivan oversees one of the most creative and innovative spaces in all of New York City.
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ITP (aka, Interactive Telecommunications Program) is a two-year graduate program offered by NYU. The mission of ITP, according to its website, is to “explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives.”
Simply put, ITP gives its students the opportunity to experiment with cool new forms of technology.
“It’s like a playground, almost, for people who are really enthusiastic about tech and the user experience and using technology to enrich people’s lives,” said Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley to NYU Alumni Connect. Crowley was a part of ITP’s class of 2004, and his thesis project at ITP was Dodgeball, which was basically an earlier version of Foursquare..
Dan O’Sullivan took some time out of his busy schedule to chat with us over email about ITP and innovation. Instead of summarizing our conversation, we figured it’d be best to present his thoughts word-for-word. He is, after all, very quotable.
How do you define innovation?
I guess innovation is finding new ways to do things.. From 1point 3acres bbs
Is innovation something that can be taught or is it something that is innate?
An innovative spirit can be unleashed but it has to exist in the first place.. ----
What are some ways an individual can nurture themselves to be more innovative?. ----
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Develop a tolerance for the pain of having things unsettled and messy. This will allow you to keep generating ideas after the initial pain relief of having the usual suspects pop up. Try to see it as a game or a puzzle where the continual failure is what makes it infinitely challenging, fun and interesting. A good communication loop with the appreciative users of your innovations will help keep your morale up.
What are some examples of innovative habits?
Think of 10 more ideas after you’re satisfied with your first. Take showers and bike rides after your conscious mind has some momentum and then let your unconscious mind solve the problem. Surround yourself with people who don’t think exactly like you. Try to be funny.
What is Tisch ITP and how does this program teach/nurture innovation?
We have a very bottom up flow through the place. The professors work for the students. When the students are not told very specifically what to make, they have to invent it for themselves.. .и
What kinds of skills/experiences does a prospective ITP student need to have before applying for the program?
We accept 110 students from completely different backgrounds, most of them without significant tech chops. Arriving with some passionate interests in a subject is probably the most helpful thing.
These days, are young people entering the work force being forced to be more innovative?
As much as the general economy desperately needs innovation to grow, most individual companies are really looking for people to execute the existing policy for entry level positions. So innovation is less appreciated in these positions than skills with proprietary software packages or programming languages. While learning a particular skill might have set someone in my father’s generation for 20 or 30 years, now I think the cycles of change are more like 2 years. We turn out students who would enjoy inventing a new job so they will eventually be ready for this new economy but I have to say that the initial transition to entry level jobs can be tough. They will do well on their last job or their industry implodes halfway through their career.
Are there socio-economic links to innovation? Both Gates and Zuckerberg came from privileged backgrounds. What can inner-city young people do to develop innovative thinking?
I think the improvisational thinking you have to do in working within limited resources often forces you to re-frame the problem and generates the unexpected ideas. On the other hand I would say that getting out of school without a debt burden gives you more options for getting through the lean years of starting up crazy ideas.. Χ
How important is it to attend college to become or stay innovative? Is it better (or more practical) to pay for the college experience? Or would you rather take that money and go start something yourself?
For undergraduates I think a more important outcome than starting an innovative enterprise is becoming interesting company for yourself and others. I guess you call this becoming civilized and it might even inhibit the innovative spirit. Having said that, good schools do develop critical thinking which is the key ingredient for challenging the status quo and fostering innovation. A lot of innovation is really just hybrid thinking. The perfect moment at ITP is when a student takes their liberal arts background to combine a couple of things into this new and interesting intersection, but they have to have that tool chest of things to combine. You are going to live long and have plenty of time to do your start up why not enjoy undergrad?
Graduate education on the other hand is probably much more open to disruption. Most graduate schools (though not ITP) are vocational and defined by the job you get afterwards. Through co-working spaces, hackerspaces, meetups, TED talks etc… you could probably cobble together a DIY training for job at a fraction of the cost of most Universities. So far these are still not close to the quality and intensity of the University programs but I think those options will bring a healthy competition to expensive graduate programs.
In your opinion (and by your own definition), what is the most innovative city in the world?
I don’t get out much but I am very impressed with Shanghai. I personally get a great creative charge from the energy, imagination and diversity you find in New York. When I returned from a trip to Shanghai recently, New York felt quaint in comparison.
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What is the most innovative company in NYC?
I suppose design consultants like frogdesign or IDEO are professional innovators who move on to the next innovation without needing to settle in for the implementation.
What’s the number one innovation mistake you see your students, start-ups, and leaders make? (How do they block themselves from being innovative?)
. From 1point 3acres bbsThey either obsess on the implementation and miss the need to re-frame the concept or they keep playing with concept uniformed by the lessons of implementation and testing. Developing fast prototyping skills and the habit of alternating between the details and the big picture helps fight landing in these dead ends.
What are the risks to being innovative and how does one manage them?
More innovation is the biggest threat to an innovation. You will probably become richer if you have one innovative idea and not get distracted with others while you go deep in implementing that. I might put the two you held out as great innovators, Gates and Zuckerberg, in that category. Constant innovation thinking without years of subsequent follow through is probably a business pathology (come over to academia!).
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What was the most innovative project that came out of ITP?-baidu 1point3acres
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