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Plymouth’s Innovation Foundations: Both Stable and Dynamic
Plymouth's Innovation Foundations: Both Stable and Dynamic
Summer 2025 Plymouth Magazine
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Tourism management and policy students on a field trip to Mill City Park at Franklin Falls, New England's first whitewater park. Photo by Denise Panyik-Dale
Innovation may conjure up something between a gadget one might find in an airplane magazine or an abstract quality appropriate for a business plan-ultimately, a way to sell something, but the notion can be more generalized. As a geographer by training and nature I have a strong tendency to link places with characteristics.
Can a setting be conducive to innovation, and if so, does our local intersection around 43° 45'N and 71° 41'W fit the bill? Having carried driver's licenses from eight different states and spent ten years contemplating the social and non-human world around Plymouth, I conclude that if places can contain ingredients yielding innovation, we have them.
Diversity is fundamental to producing innovation. You can create a new image with the eight-crayon box, but the 96-count box makes it much easier. Too often diversity is a stand-in for ethnic and racial diversity, but human worlds carry many more categories and to produce something novel, it's best to start with as many options as possible. READ MORE
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