“Innovation is all about people. It is about the roles people can play, the hats they can put on, the personas they can adopt.” In an exclusive book excerpt from the General Manager of Ideo, we meet the 10 personality types he takes to keep creativity thriving. The writer classifies these 10 personality types into three categories: The Learning Personas, the Organizing Personas, and the Building Personas Continue reading
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In another era, a nation’s most valuable assets were its natural resources — coal, say, or amber waves of grain. But in the information economy of the 21st century, the most priceless resource is often an idea, along with the right to profit from it. Continue reading
The Mutual Learning Platform (MLP) enabling European regions to enter knowledge-based society and benefit from increased investment in research and innovation intends to create a mechanism for interactive “learning” by regional authorities and by interested public and private organisations in European Regions It is expected to result in concrete tools for regional policy-makers involved in research and innovation activities. Continue reading
The book edited by Alan Steventon and Steve Wright (Springer 2006) sets out a vision of intelligent spaces and describes the progress that has been made towards realisation?. Intelligent Spaces (or iSpaces) refer to physical environments in which information and communication technologies and sensor systems disappear as they become embedded into physical objects Continue reading
The Institute for the Future conducts basic research on the futures of emerging technologies, health, and global business trends. It helps organisations to make better, more informed decisions about the future by providing the foresight to create insights that lead to action. Continue reading
The Digital Cities Survey examined and assessed how city governments are utilizing information technology to operate and deliver quality service to their customers and citizens. The Survey documents recent trends and the progress made to date in the transition to digital government. Continue reading
This recent book by Jorge Niosi is the first analysis of Canada’s regional innovation system and high technology agglomerations. According to the author, “regional innovation systems are evolutionary complex systems in which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy incentives. Continue reading