Innovation as Collective Process

"OpenAMD (Attendee Meta-Data) combines an RFID tracking system with social networking. Utilizing conference badges to track individuals' locations in real-time, it then integrates with personal and community details (metadata). This allows for features such as recommending to users conference talks and people with related interests to increase participants' engagement with the conference and their community. It also increases awareness of how such emerging technologies could be used for surveillance and marketing purposes."

The Keyglove is an open-source portable Arduino/AVR-powered glove that uses touch combinations (for keys) and an accelerometer (for the mouse) to generate keyboard and mouse control codes using only one hand. Once learned, the glove can easily be used without looking, making it perfect for embedded/wearable environments. # Keyglove pre-order is now $200 # Prototype-friendly kit pre-order is now $300

The Keyglove is an open-source portable Arduino/AVR-powered glove that uses touch combinations (for keys) and an accelerometer (for the mouse) to generate keyboard and mouse control codes using only one hand. Once learned, the glove can easily be used without looking, making it perfect for embedded/wearable environments. The glove is thin and light, built to allow other activities (such as writing) without being in the way. # Keyglove pre-order is now $200 # Prototype-friendly kit pre-order is now $300

"They're the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world"

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.

"Innovact 2010 Innovact has been dubbed "the place to be" by all our participants, whatever their profile and from wherever they hark! What they've said: "I saved time", "we got European recognition", "I found solutions for developing my project", "we developed our networks"... "

is a new social networking application

Customer engagement (CE) refers to the engagement of customers with one another, with a company or a brand. The initiative for engagement can be either consumer- or company-led and the medium of engagement can be on or offline. Unlike marketing terms such as positioning, customer engagement has not been traced to a single source. Customer engagement has been discussed widely online;

"INTERACTIVE MARKETING - CUSTOMER INVOLVEMENT IN BRAND BUILDING"

"Empowering Innovation in Education"

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.

"Ideas worth spreading."

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.

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

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...

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)...

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.

Usage of Information visualization as the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information...

Usage of Information visualization as the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information...