Archive for the 'Innovation' Category

Business Week: World’s Most Innovative Companies

Business_Week_LogoBusiness Week has just presented its top list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies categorized by industry. Google, 3M, and Nintendo are three companies that show up multiple times. Continue reading…

10 ideas that are changing the world

TIME MagazineMore than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on, according to the latest issue of TIME Magazine. The magazine publishes a list of 10 ideas that are changing the world: Common Wealth, The End of Customer Service, The Post-Movie-Star Era, Reverse Radicalism, Kitchen Chemistry, Geoengineering, Synthetic Authenticity, The New Austerity, Mandatory Health, and Re-Judaizing Jesus. Continue reading…

Innovation ’starts in education’

Innovation NationThe key to the UK becoming a world leader in innovation is to forge closer links between industry and higher education, according to “Innovation Nation” White Paper, published by the Department for innovation, Universities & Skills. Continue reading…

Emerging technologies

emerging-tech-horizon2008.jpg The 2008 Horizon Report  describes six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC)  and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Continue reading…

Research centres support enterprise product innovation

NOKIA_CambridgeIn this latest article Michal Lev-Ram, in Fortune technology section, describes the new concept phone by NOKIA. The new concept phone will be the outcome of the collaboration between the Finish telecommunication enterprise and Cambridge Nanoscience center Continue reading…

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008

tr10.jpgEach year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine publishes its list of 10 emerging technologies that its editors believe will be particularly important over the next few years. This is work ready to emerge from the lab, in a broad range of areas: energy, computer hardware and software, biological imaging, and more. Continue reading…

IJIRD: A new journal on innovation

ijird-first-issue.jpgThe first issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD) is available from the IJIRD home page (www.inderscience.com/ijird). This issue contains five papers which the reader may download free-of-charge. Continue reading…

Lead Market Initiative

lmi.jpgThe Lead Market Initiative for Europe is expected to foster the emergence of markets with high economic and societal value. On the basis of intense stakeholder consultations, six markets have been identified against a set of objective criteria; eHealth, protective textiles, sustainable construction, recycling, bio-based products and renewable energies. Continue reading…

Innovation and Performance in the Global Economy

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.

The eighth edition of the Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard Continue reading…

The 2008 ISPIM Conference - Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration

OpenInnovationForum The 2008 ISPIM Conference - Open Innovation: Creating Products and Services through Collaboration - will be held in Tours (Loire Valley), France on 15-18 June 2008. Continue reading…