Archive for December, 2009

Innovation Best Books 2009 by BusinessWeek

The best innovation books of 2009 selected by BusinessWeek highlight four major subjects: (1) Design-driven innovation: how design strategies are shaping the future of businesses, (2) Innovation in uncertain times: how to reduce risk in periods of crisis, (3) Intelligent innovation: how to tap into the power of creativity, Continue reading…

Global Alliance to Smart Cities

SAP AG, SHARP Corporation, Nikken Sekkei Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd., Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., e-solutions, inc., and the Future Design Center Incorporated Association (FDC) have joined forces to start the Smart City Project to present a technology model from Japan to the world. The plan is to develop cutting-edge technologies and models as “social systems”. Continue reading…

IBM on Creating the Intelligent Enterprise

ibm-biThe IBM Institute for Business Value publishes two business analytics and optimization studies aiming to help organizations to find how, driven by intelligence rather than intuition, can gain speed, agility and timing to execute winning maneuvers. Continue reading…

The evolution of Norway’s national innovation system

Norway_InnovationThis paper by Jan Fagerberg, David C Mowery and Bart Verspagen, published on Science and Public Policy, 36(6), July 2009, pages 431–444, analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small, open, resource-based economy (Norway). Continue reading…

EU Regional Innovation Scoreboard – 2009

RIS-2009The 2009 edition of the European Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) provides a comparative assessment of innovation performance across the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union and Norway. The report was prepared by Hugo Hollanders (MERIT), Stefano Tarantola (JRC), and Alexander Loschky (JRC). Continue reading…

Ideas for Cities

ideas-for-citiesGOOD.is magazine runs a continuing brainstorm on the future of cities, inaugurated at the CEOs for Cities Velocity conference in September, 2009. In this conference a diverse collection of professionals—from graphic designers to mayors— tried to figure out what makes cities great, and how to make them better. Continue reading…

IBM – The Smarter City

IBM - The Smarter CityIBM has created a number of flash movies presenting the company’s vision about the creation of a smarter city. The movies cover the following perspectives: Education, Development, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, Public Safety, and Transportation Continue reading…

Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence

MIT-CCIOver the past decade, the rise of the Internet has enabled the emergence of surprising new forms of collective intelligence. Examples include Google, Wikipedia, Threadless, and many others. Continue reading…

Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference

coins2009This first conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brought together a multi-disciplinary international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. Continue reading…

BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit

bif5-home-logoThe Business Innovation Factory’s 5th Collaborative Innovation Summit brought together today’s most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to discuss innovation success through personal storytelling. Continue reading…