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The Innovation Exchange is a programme of the UK Innovation Unit where innovators from the third sector, public servants and social investors can collaborate to tackle specific social problems together.

Details of the new Finnish Innovation Strategy which is not just about education but mainly about entrepreneurship and industry.

In the page about implementation of the strategy it pleads for a holistic apporach to policy-making about innovation: "The key recommendations of the national innovation strategy will apply to the co-ordination of a broad-based innovation policy at the government level, and especially the co-ordination of the implementation of sector-specific development and innovation programmes. The objective of intensified co-ordination is to increase synergies between policy sectors in the promotion of innovations and to accelerate innovation activities especially in the public sector. The strategy will also outline how to promote the preconditions of Finnish enterprises and entrepreneurs in a comprehensive way."

The forum for science, industry and economy that promotes innovation dynamics, networking of innovation and performance potentials.

With more than 6,700 international content partners and over 93,000 publications about the latest developments and research results, interesting studies and statistics as well as innovative processes, products and services of future-oriented companies and renowned scientific institutions, innovation report is counted amongst important initiators of international innovation events.

transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice

The Futurlab site contains sections about projects: - the innovate award scheme; - the Models of Innovation project investigating conditions and strategies to support innovation in the design and development of digital learning resources; - teachers as innovators in teaching and learning with digital resources; - Why don't you? .. a porject about providing tested new tools and approaches that could be used to try something in a new way ... and available resources (reports; handbooks; articles,...)

The author says: "Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?"

A speech by Commissioner Potocnik about innovation policy in Europe.

A not very inspiring look at the near future from Business Week. It does confirm the ever-growing interest in innovation in the US that is also being felt in Europe.

The Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative commenced in 2003 and supports primary and secondary schools to work closely together in clusters over three years to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education. Clusters receive funding to develop strategically effective education programs to advance student learning. From 2005, every Victorian government school will be in a cluster, with a total of 247 clusters in operation.

The UK Innovation Unit promotes innovation to improve education and children's services. It acts as a catalyst for change and draws on expertise from both the public and private sectors, combining practitioner expertise with the ambition of policy makers.

About how expertise can hinder innovation and creativity because it tends to fence in ideas and limit possibilities, especially within specific areas of expertise. So thought has to be given to stepping outside existing frameworks and how new ideas are communicated to others.

The "innovation" high schools provide more support for students and more positive learning environments than the city's other high schools

Over 350 innovative projects in Australia have been funded through the ASISTM initiative

An EUN dossier about innovation in schools including:
Spotlight on Calibrate schools
Interactive Whiteboards introduced in a Belgian Catholic Primary School
Scenario building in education
New eTwinning Handbook 2007
Types of e-portfolios
e-Portfolio Scenarios

A series of papers about innovation, parrticularly patents but also on open source process and intellectual property.

When trying to understand what the word innovation is meant to mean, it is not so much the dictionary definition that interests us but rather the meanings that people give the word when they use it...

About the flashy new system for shoppers at the Coop in Switzerland supposedly to help buying be easier. The surprise side-effects of adopting certain innovations.

The following text is based on the answers of thirty-three experts from sixteen European countries to a series of questions about possible changes in education as a response to one of eight challenges identified by the European Commission in its working p

Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration.

The themes of the 2007 JISC online conference were "institutional transformation" and "supporting lifelong learning". Two interesting ebook about these subjects have been published.