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.

This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the University of Minnesota's Fair Use Analysis (FUA) tool, an interactive online application intended to educate users and foster defensible fair use practice in accordance with copyright law by guiding users through a robust, fact-specific, four-factor analysis.

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.

Software developed by a consortium of European universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, which will tackle bullying in schools will be trialled on 900 school children starting next week (12th).

A new experimental research island has been established by the University of Leicester in a pioneering project that aims to identify the educational benefits of Virtual Worlds.

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 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

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.

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...

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

The Schooling for Tomorrow project (SfT) is a major CERI project since the late 1990s, developing futures thinking in education. Its starting point is that neglect of the long term is increasingly problematic in meeting the challenges of complexity and change that education is facing.

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?"

In cooperation with state and national partners, the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) has launched an unprecedented effort to create at least 100 academically rigorous, focused and flexible new and redesigned high schools over the next five years.

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

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.

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.

The US Congress considers additional funding for research and development work focused on applying technology to improve education. Two main goals would be to fund digitisation of content and to act as a clearinghouse for R&D into advanced technology applications for training and learning

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