{"id":117,"date":"2014-01-13T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/?p=117"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:09:42","slug":"google-engineers-20-of-working-time-for-self-initiated-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/2014\/01\/13\/google-engineers-20-of-working-time-for-self-initiated-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Engineers, 20% of Working Time for Self-initiated Projects."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/innovation-futures\/files\/2014\/01\/google%20engineers_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Google engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that \u201eif you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social<\/p>\n<p>Growing need to stimulate sense of auto-achievement and creativity on working spaces<\/p>\n<p>Economic \/ Industrial<\/p>\n<p>Related to similar tentatives to stimulate innovation in all departments of the company. This is actually empowering talented people, in order to bring their own best ideas to test and sometimes turn them into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Design \/ Art<\/p>\n<p>Current tendency to look for talented people outside innovation sectors. Design and creativity where you are not excepting them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obstacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social<\/p>\n<p>The chance that engineers feel like &#8220;the company owns me&#8221; exists.<\/p>\n<p>Economic \/ Industrial<\/p>\n<p>What about the intellectual property of these \u201cun-official projects\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Change in current innovation patterns<\/p>\n<p>Innovation may come from employees of a company; in this case, it&#8217;s strongly institutionalized by the company itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sector specifics \/ cultural specifics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This weak signal is specific to any company with a high number of employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Internet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/21\/jobs\/21pre.html\">www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/21\/jobs\/21pre.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Read vwatkins's latest blog entries.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.innovation-futures.org\/?q=blog\/81\">vwatkins&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abstract: Google engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that \u201eif you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it.&#8221; Driver\u00a0 Social Growing need to stimulate sense of auto-achievement and creativity on working spaces Economic \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signals-of-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}