I found an interesting talk about innovation by David Schwaderer:

Innovation Survival: Innovation in Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxc1s0vlghY

Pretty much the essence goes like this:
Innovation often:
- disrupts auto-pilots
- is an insult to the status quo
- without leadership: socializes gain, privates risk

... and some more. It’s quite worth watching.

Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority

Very good backgrounder. All the more reason to rethink the “need” for the Clubs’ approval(s).