Top 20 Innovative Companies in the World

Posted at 9 August 2005 in Innovative Companies

In late 2004, The Boston Consulting Group conducted its second annual global survey of senior executives on innovation and the innovation-to-cash (ITC) process. A total of 940 executives, representing 68 countries and all major industries, participated.

This report highlights some of the top-level findings from the survey and explores the implications. It also offers a framework to guide managers as they continue to think about how to turn their ideas into profits.

Top 25 Innovations

Posted at 9 August 2005 in Innovation Measurement

Is it possible to measure individual innovations? Which innovation is most important: the Internet or the Cell phone?

CNN presented the top 25 innovations of the past quarter century, selected by a panel of technology leaders assembled by the Lemelson-MIT Program.

Systems of Innovation

Posted at 8 August 2005 in Regional Systems of Innovation

As Chris Freeman has pointed out ‘The rate of technological change in any country and the effectiveness of companies in world competition in international/ trade in goods and services, does not depend simply on the scale of their R&D

Excellence in Central Macedonia

Posted at 7 August 2005 in Innovation Strategies

The project �Excellence in Central Macedonia� was successfully completed in June 2005. The project belongs to the Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions, supported by the European Commission, DG Regio, and continued the efforts of previous RTP and RIS+ initiatives to support and expand the regional system of innovation in Central Macedonia, Greece.

Get Creative

Posted at 6 August 2005 in Knowledge Economy

Business Week Special Report

�The Knowledge Economy as we know it is being eclipsed by something new — call it the Creativity Economy.

Triple Helix

Posted at 6 August 2005 in Innovation

‘The Triple Helix is a spiral model of innovation that captures multiple reciprocal relationships at different points in the process of knowledge capitalization’. The model denotes the �university-industry-government� relationship as a complex of interdependent institutional spheres,

Integrating Regional Intelligence

Posted at 5 August 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

The International Conference on Integrating Regional Intelligence is organised in the framework of the Meta-Foresight initiative, an international project financed by the European Commission through the �Regions of Knowledge� Pilot Action.