The Medici Effect and "Stories from the Intersection"

One of my colleagues sent me a link to an article in Harvard Business School Working Knowledge about a book which is very relevant to my current work in innovation.  The book discussed in this article is called The Medici Effect.  The author, Frans Johansson, explores how individuals, teams, and organizations can create ideas at the intersection of different fields, cultures, and industries.  In the book he describes extraordinarly creative connections that innovators have made. These examples are explored further in his weblog, Stories from the Intersection: Stories about breakthrough insights at the intersection of fields, disciplines and cultures based on my new book The Medici Effect.  He has been writing and discussing his ideas since 1984, so his ideas are well supported.