Archive for February, 2009

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009

Each year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine chooses 10 emerging technologies with the potential to change lives around the world. Some of this year’s choices, such as paper-based medical tests and intelligent software that acts as a personal assistant, could reach the market within a year. Others, like biological machines and nanopiezotronics, Continue reading…

Global Clusters Programme

Global Clusters is a unique and most advanced business development program in Finland. It is specifically designed for high tech companies targeting critical mass of customers and global market presence. Continue reading…

City Success: Theories of Urban Prosperity

Choosing the right path to success is one of the most important decisions urban leaders will make. City Success report, published by CEOs for Cities, is a comprehensive review of the principal theories of urban success divided into three categories: Theories of Firms, Theories of People and Theories of Place. Continue reading…

Intelligent Incubator: Blueprints

With the conclusion of the MEDICUBE project, an INTEREG IIIB – ARCHI MED program that aims to create a fertile innovation environment inside incubators, a blueprint was produced informing about the online platform facilitating key innovation processes of incubators. Continue reading…

Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm

The recent book of Ikujiro Nonaka, Florian Kohlbacher, Toru Hirata, and Ryoko Toyama (Palgrave 2008) expands the theory of the knowledge creating company (Nonaka, I., and Tacheuchi, H. (1995), The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford University Press), covering six essential building blocks of knowledge creation within companies,  Continue reading…

Distributed Intelligence

Distributed intelligence is anchored in the basic assumption that the human mind cannot reach its potential unless it is immersed and embedded in a distributed communication network (with other humans and with artifacts) supported by socio-technical environments. Continue reading…

Video: Origins of Silicon Valley and Defense Intelligence

Silicon Valley moved through several overlapping waves of innovation, the defense wave, integrated circuits wave, personal computers wave, the internet wave. The video is about the origins of the new “university-industry collaboration” development model introduced by Fredrick Terman, Continue reading…

Video: Designing Innovation Networks based on Evolution Theory

Nine principles of innovation networks design to address how innovative organisations make best use of good ideas generated both from within and externally, harnessing the Internet and ubiquitous computing.

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Video: Innovation Center, virtual product development

In the mi adidas Innovation Center in Paris offers a virtual environment for customised product design. Customers can see the latest adidas shoes, select the features they wish, create their individual profile, assembe the digital shoes interactively, Continue reading…