Where have your greatest ideas come from? Ever had an “ah-ha!” eureka moment that just came to you, seemingly from out of nowhere? Steve Johnson would argue otherwise. In the video below Johnson shares his research on the environments most suitable for spawning great ideas; to boil his message down to a sentence: the best ideas happen in collaborative environments.

Johnson points to the old English coffee houses as the breeding grounds for some of the most innovative inventions of the past centuries, “People would get together with different backgrounds, different expertise, and people could share… an astonishing number of innovations from this period [the enlightenment] have a coffee house in their story.” We believe iMeet and your virtual meeting room is the modern day English coffee house.

Drawing from Darwin and the launch of Sputnik, Johnson explains, “an idea is a network on the most elemental level.” That most of the time, “We take ideas from other people…and we stitch them together, and that’s where great new ideas come from.” He calls this type of environment, “the liquid network, where lots of different ideas jostle with each other… the environment that leads to innovation.”

iMeet provides a space where your ideas can be clearly communicated and others can share their thoughts and opinions with ease. Its Evernote integration provides a system for keeping track of your team’s collaborations, and since its based in the cloud you can meet whenever and wherever a new thought strikes your mind. iMeet provides simple, mobile, and personal interactions giving  you easier access to an “idea prone environment” than ever before.

Check out Johnson’s lecture, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” then jump into your iMeet room and see just how much more innovative simplified collaboration tools make you and your business.

(Video Courtesy of TED.com)