Biografia
"Investigations of innovation too often focus on the products, not on the people and the creative processes and conditions that generate those products" -Mark Runco
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I, Mikko Ahonen, have started this blog to integrate different viewpoints on creativity and innovation. I hopefully can provide some ideas for You to digest :-)
As you may have guessed, I live in Tampere, Finland. My father is an entrepreneur-inventor. I tried to "escape" my destiny for years, but my resistance was futile and I ended up ... doing innovation research and starting new initiatives ;-) To me innovation is not only a positive thing, so, this blog contains also discussion about risks, ethics and responsibility. My EMF- and RISK-tagged stories discuss about these ethical topics.
My friends describe me as smiling, energetic, social and ... impulsive. Still, I may be also dull, absent-minded and sarcastic especially when I am tired ... or really focused - a complex personality ;-)
I started to write this blog (http://beyondcreativity.blogs.com) for my on-going information systems dissertation, but nowadays it covers also my work and personal interests.
Thanks for reading and commenting this blog!
Take care
Mikko
My e-mail: mikko . ahonen [at ] uta . fi
My telephone: +358-3-3551 8069
Contact network: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkoahonen
You may also find me in the Facebook.
Bio:
http://www.uta.fi/~mikko.ahonen/
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"There are too many good ideas held by people who don't work for you to ignore"
- Henry Chesbrough
"My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing." -Abraham Maslow
Prof. Dr. Huai Chiang (Zhejiang University China) opened her speech at the international cell phone conference (June 2000) Salzburg (Austria) with the following words:
“In earlier days we did birth control (read: sterilization) with microwave radiation. Today we use it to phone, very nice!”
