A quote that resonated from the book “The Power of Pull” :

A study of Innocentive’s record in connecting searchers with solvers suggested that the solutions were much more likely to come from people in unrelated disciplines than from people in the same discipline as the searcher.

There’s plenty more gems in this book, recently published by the wonderfully named “Centre for the Edge.”

(Apologies for brevity – heavy client schedule for next two weeks).