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Innovation Intermediaries is a concept in innovation studies to help understand the role of firms, agencies and individuals that facilitate innovation by providing the bridging, brokering, knowledge transfer necessary to bring together the range of different organisations and knowledge needed to create successful innovation. Innovation intermediaries have always played a key role in innovation...

"Growing BIG POTATOES BIG POTATOES: The London Manifesto for Innovation is a contribution to improving the climate for innovation globally... Over the next few months with a number of partners we will also be hosting public discussions and debates around the themes of the Manifesto, including a launch event, in London and beyond. And during the forthcoming UK general election we will be challenging those who propose to lead us out of recession to respond to the Manifesto principles. Later in the year we will publish an updated Manifesto, having determined the scope of the challenge we face and started to change the culture around and climate for innovation globally."

Innovation Exchange Inc. operates a website which acts as a platform for companies and non-profit organizations to present innovation challenges to a community of innovators.

"Social Innovation Camp started in the UK. Now it's springing up across the globe: each version of Social Innovation Camp is unique and run locally but with support from the UK team."

Ideawicket is an Open Innovation intermediary based in New Delhi, India. The portal connects science and technology innovators with innovation seeking businesses and non-profits. Organizations looking for new technologies, breakthrough research or solutions for existing R&D problems use the Ideawicket platform to find R&D solutions and connect with research partners and suppliers in the field.

IdeaConnection is an open innovation intermediary and innovation resource portal. It mediates solutions to scientific, engineering and business problems, and publishes innovation-related resources (interviews, success-stories, open problems), both with the general goal of creating more high-value jobs and promoting advancement of science.

Although the idea and discussion about some consequences (especially the interfirm cooperation in R&D) date back at least to the 60s, Open Innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology.

The Innovation Company whit: 1. Innovation Capabilities 2. Innovation Projects 3. Ventures

"Connecting innovators to bring about radical change"

Example that innovation doesn't need to happen in 'something already very known' or just in big companies or in big countries. How inventive and entrepreneur people like Ivo Boscarol can become international recognized and successful from very small country like Slovenija. Pipistrel is the most innovative company in Europe For this year's award European Business Awards has competed over 15 thousand different sized companies from different industries and of all Member States of the EU-27. The commission awards, 51 judges of assessors from different countries. Boscarolov Pipistrel won the award for most innovative company, arguing that the world's leading designer and manufacturer of ultralight motor-gliders.

yet2.com is a global technology marketplace founded in 1999. The company is based around the idea of open innovation, and allows all types of technologies to be bought and sold. yet2.com focuses in four areas: Open Innovation Technology acquisition, Technology out-licensing and business development, Patent buying and selling, Venture Capital (yet2 Ventures)

"An international network of creative technologists connected to the people, companies and cutting edge technologies from outside your field of view. Helping you connect and collaborate using the principles of Open Innovation"

User innovation refers to innovation by intermediate users (e.g. user firms) or consumer users (individual end-users or user communities), rather than by suppliers (producers or manufacturers)...

NineSigma is an open innovation services provider that helps client companies develop and maximize value from their innovation programs. In 2008, NineSigma ranked among the top 20 percent of companies on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States.[1] The company also has operations in Europe and Asia.

"Empowering Innovation in Education"

"The InnovationXchange (IXC) is an Australian created international knowledge exchange, whose purpose is to identify and create collaborative business, research and policy opportunities. This unique not-for-profit business model supports open innovation and enables the safe and fast transfer of knowledge and ideas within and across corporate and geographical boundaries through the IXC Intermediary Service."

John Seely Brown says: "In a previous life, I was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). I was deeply involved in the management of radical innovation and in the formation of corporate strategy and strategic positioning of Xerox as The Document Company. Today, I'm Chief of Confusion, helping people ask the right questions, trying to make a difference through my work- speaking, writing, teaching."

"Fast Thinking is a quality quarterly devoted to Innovation across all walks of life, with both strong Business and Consumer/Lifestyle orientations."

Business Model Innovation (BMI) refers to the creation, or reinvention, of a business itself.