A Discovery Network (DN) is a community that can include commercial, academic, governmental and independent entities collaborating together and coordinating their efforts to enrich society with new material goods and services, and extracting some value from doing so. The DN can also be viewed as a fully integrated structure, taking in, producing, and processing data, information, and knowledge, to produce goods and services for the global market. The term "Discovery Network" was coined by Tiberius Brastaviceanu in 2008, in his work on collaborative networks published for the Multitude Project The first Discovery Network project was created in June 2010 around the Matchmaking Device System., a consumer electronics product invented by Tiberius Brastaviceanu in October 2006.

This book is for anyone who ever had an idea for making the world a slightly better place - but no one would listen. Or if they did listen, they said it wouldn't work…

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

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

"Ideas worth spreading."

Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences.

Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.

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

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)...

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...

Before being open, innovation happened in closed environments often performed by individuals, scientists or employees...

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.