About us /
Knowinnovation
Knowinnovation (or KI as most people call us) is delighted to partner with the University of Glasgow in the DiveIn programme.
We are a group of facilitators, designers, software engineers, and researchers, who focus on accelerating academic science. We are a diverse group ourselves, spread around the world. Some of us came from academia, others from industry, and a few from performing arts. What unites us is our dual passion for science and creative problem-solving.
What particularly excites us about this initiative is the emphasis on diversity. We have been working in the field of academic innovation for twenty years, and during that time the one constant that we have observed is that if you want to get better outcomes, you need to assemble more diverse inputs. This might be in relation to people, ideas, inspiration, environment or process. What excites us so much about DiveIn is the prioritisation of diversity as being at the core of the programme. A blog entry from over 10 years ago neatly summarises our thinking on this.
What We Do
KI’s mission is to accelerate scientific innovation. We believe scientific thinking, knowledge, and discoveries offer humanity a route to the best possible future. However, many of the problems that confront humanity are complex and multi-faceted. In order to solve them, we need to create interdisciplinary, diverse research communities. And, that’s where we come in. By applying the theories of deliberate creativity to the process of solving complex challenges, we help the research community create a better world for all, faster.
More specifically we:
- design problem-solving events that facilitate creative breakthroughs amongst diverse, interdisciplinary participants;
- build software tools to facilitate the exchange of interesting questions, and creative ideas;
- develop training materials and resources that teach others how to use these tools;
- work with researchers to constantly improve our tools and processes.
And we do all of this in an environmentally, and economically sustainable way.