Innovation cannot be planned, but people who are likely to generate innovation can be nurtured.
I often heard that at RCA/IDE, "you can't plan for innovation, but you can nurture the people who are likely to create innovation". We used to talk about this with the faculty.
The essence of what both unexplored and IDE are doing is the same.
The challenge is how to connoisseur the "likely innovators. It's not clear that the best and brightest who applied after the unexplored became famous are in the same cluster as the savages who applied when the unexplored was unknown.
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