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Hannerdad engineering for creative process

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Redball:
Hannerdad, the space station and scientists from a variety of fields he's assembled aboard illustrate an interesting point: acceleration of many group and individual creative processes by bringing people from many disciplines together. An article in a January New Yorker, which opens citing research debunking "brainstorming," showed how putting experts in widely disparate fields in the same place, the same corridors, the same cafeteria, produces a kind of critical mass of creative thought. Jobs engineered the Pixar HQ to produce that effect, even putting the johns in the center -- for a while. And Building 20 at MIT, a hideous warren of offices and labs, by housing researchers in many fields, was able to "extract the best from people."

jwhouk:
And over a century ago, a guy named Edison did that with people in Menlo Park.

MillionDollar Belt Sander:
Except Edison stole 98% of the credit for the inventions his team produced.     Most if not all of the patents under his name were NOT his inventions or concepts... he was the classic credit-stealing jerkwad manager.  (citation needed.   too tired to quote sources.)

jwhouk:
No, no, I agree. He stole everything from the underlings who worked for him.

Still - SS Ellicott-Chatham Technologies has to be one heck of a think-tank if it's come up with even a fraction of the stuff we've seen in the comic.

Is it cold in here?:
The ability to do science and technology work and the ability to organize something like the space station can conceivably occur in the same person, but it's rare. I'd guess that Beatrice put it together.

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