Archive for February, 2006

How Companies Use Innovation to Build Value

How do companies encourage and manage the process of innovation? Last year, Knowledge@Wharton and the Boston Consulting Group teamed up to identify the world’s most innovative firms and invited them to answer that question. Continue reading…

Regional Innovation on the Internet

Regional innovation on the Internet is a district of websites dealing with this theme. The representation is based on the MapStan Search (http://search.mapstan.net/). Continue reading…

Intelligent Communities of 2006

Seven cities and regions were selected as top intelligent communities of 2006 by the Intelligent Community Forum.

Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Flagship project: OneCleveland (www.onecleveland.org) having the mission to deploy a community-based ultrabroadband network in the metropolitan area and to build a new knowledge economy on its foundation. Continue reading…

The New Intellectual Property Marketplace

IBM presents a unique audio series entitled “The New Intellectual Property Marketplace.” The first episode in the series discusses the characteristics of the new IP marketplace, featuring Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM vice president of technology strategy and innovation. Continue reading…

The Internet of Things

Written by a team of analysts from International Telecommunication Union The Internet of Things report takes a look at the next step in “always on” communications, in which new technologies like RFID and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices that provide relevant content and information whatever the location of the user. Continue reading…

Defining the Future of Product Innovation

Claudia Bernett, from Frog Design, writes about a new trend in the digital product’s development process where companies and consumers are coming together in a new kind of collaboration that is radically reshaping the business landscape.
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LIFT. Life, Ideas, Futures. Together.

LIFT aims to connect people who are passionate about new applications of technology and propel their conversations into the broader world to improve life and work. Continue reading…

The Stockholm Challenge

StockholmChallengeThe Stockholm Challenge is a global networking program for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) entrepreneurs. One of its scope is to demonstrate how information technology can improve living conditions and increase economic growth in all parts of the world. Continue reading…

Virtual Tour of Begbroke Science Park

Begbroke Science ParkIn the technology and science parks usually great research work is taking place. The researchers are investing great amount of time exploring the frontier of sciences. It is difficult, though, to present those technology and science parks in a way that the general public can be impressed. Continue reading…

The 2005 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

EU_FlagThe 2005 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard lists the Research and Development (R&D) investment of the top 700 EU and the top 700 non-EU corporate R&D investors, based on annual audited company consolidated reports and accounts. Continue reading…