Dominant Lens "I think it’s innovative from the stand point of that they’ve never been able to do it before. I think it’s always been this elusive Star Trek dream." "The additive manufacturing, so the 3D printing" "DNA fabrication" "Humanoid like Robot, called and avatar" "Manufacturing scale-up for current technologies at Virginia Tech, Nano-fibers" "This new weapons system uses electromagnetism" This dominant lens of innovation as high tech says that innovation is associated only with technical artifacts or systems. This appeared in our data mostly through people citing high-tech things as examples of innovation: iPads, 3D printers, robotics, etc. | Challenging Lens “It doesn't have to be something concrete or something physical, a building or a program. I think it's more about the way our minds change and expand. Anything that creates that within us, I guess is innovation.” “What came to my mind is gay marriage... It's politically innovative to me.” The challenging lens of innovation doesn't accept the “high-tech” or artifact assumption. Interviewees who viewed innovation through this lens talked about about ideas, concepts, or even change itself as innovative. They did not cite specific material things, let alone ones that were high-tech. |
The Big Picture
Dendrogram of keywords in the microinterviews
The image above shows a dendrogram of key words of interest in all of the microinterviews. Dendrograms show how frequently words appear near each other. In this case, "improve" and "communities" typically appear very close to each other because they share a fork that appears very close to the left side of the image.
The words themselves are underlined in different colors depending on whether they are a dominant word (red), a non-dominant word (blue), or both (green). Interestingly, the microinterviews, while still generally showing the dominant and non-dominant words clustering in those groups and not together, do appear to have more crossover than some of the key informant interviews.
The words themselves are underlined in different colors depending on whether they are a dominant word (red), a non-dominant word (blue), or both (green). Interestingly, the microinterviews, while still generally showing the dominant and non-dominant words clustering in those groups and not together, do appear to have more crossover than some of the key informant interviews.