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Collective Innovation for Complex Challenges

Is has now become widely recognized that our world has become increasingly complexified and immersed in societal issues that require a diversity of perspectives to effectively engage. Collective innovation holds the promise of enabling a plurality of views necessary for creating effective innovation strategies. Yet collective processes are beset by a range of issues that are challenging for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to understand and effectively manage. Building on the complexity typologies theory as augmented by insights from the field of systemic design, the authors propose a missing element to enable collective action initiatives – identified as meta-cognitive skills critical to group collaboration and collective innovation processes. They illustrate the proposal with well-known examples and some of the latest studies in the field. They conclude by proposing next steps that educators or practitioners might employ in their own educational, curriculum design, and practice contexts – recognizing the key elements of praxis that connects them all.