As I’ve mentioned before, the really interesting innovations don’t usually come from the core of a sector or industry, they come from the edges. The edges are places where people either don’t know or don’t care about the rules and paradigms at the core.

Next week at Duke (in the States) there’s a symposium where thirteen of the USAs “top scientists” will share their thoughts on emerging great ideas in science and how today’s discoveries might change medicine.

How does this relate to the fringes?

“I think science’s next great idea will come from a youngster who stumbles upon it by asking interesting questions,” says Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University

Read the article here.