Innovation as Collective Process

"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"... "

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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"

The Venus Project is an organization that promotes and advocates American futurist Jacque Fresco's visions of the future with the aim to improve society by moving towards a global sustainable social design that they call a "resource-based economy".

An ideas bank is a website where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas.

"Everyday Edisons is a reality TV show that airs on PBS, featuring different inventors who are trying to launch their inventions in the marketplace."

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)

"Filtericious is a collaborative open source search engine unlike any other search engine in many ways. First off, the content and indexing is 100% contributed by members of the community. Think of it as the Wikipedia of Internet search where all parts of the site are contributed one piece at a time creating a massive public database available to everybody. Secondly, we've developed a visual filter tool that lets you narrow on on what you're searching for in a manner similar to a game of 20-questions. By choosing what tags you want and what tags you don't want, you can more efficiently find exactly what you're looking for. Thirdly, because the community can link web resources with tags, we can now make our buying decisions based on hard-to-find but important political, environmental, and economical product characteristics, enabling us to efficiently and affectively "vote with our money". Filtericious will be available for anyone to use in any way they want - completely open and free. Filtericious.com is the first application of Filtericious and has the lofty goal is to index every corner of the Internet. "

"Filtericious is a collaborative open source search engine unlike any other search engine in many ways. First off, the content and indexing is 100% contributed by members of the community. Think of it as the Wikipedia of Internet search where all parts of the site are contributed one piece at a time creating a massive public database available to everybody. Secondly, we've developed a visual filter tool that lets you narrow on on what you're searching for in a manner similar to a game of 20-questions. By choosing what tags you want and what tags you don't want, you can more efficiently find exactly what you're looking for. Thirdly, because the community can link web resources with tags, we can now make our buying decisions based on hard-to-find but important political, environmental, and economical product characteristics, enabling us to efficiently and affectively "vote with our money". Filtericious will be available for anyone to use in any way they want - completely open and free. Filtericious.com is the first application of Filtericious and has the lofty goal is to index every corner of the Internet. "

BIS brings all of the levers of the economy together in one place. Our policy areas - from skills and higher education to innovation and science to business and trade - can all help to drive growth. Priorities Secure an economy that is more dynamic and more balanced between public and private sectors and between regions Safeguard the UK's long term growth by promoting skills and by turning knowledge to commercial use Stimulate enterprise and trade to drive the rebalancing and private sector growth we want to see Remove government as an obstacle to growth while ensuring responsible corporate behaviour

"We always know more then we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down." "People and human systems can not be engineered in anything that really matters - we are not machines." "Human decision making is not about rational evaluation of carefully considered options - its about pattern recognition." "Faced whit a new situation we don't make a rational choice. We do a 'first fit', not a 'best fit' pattern match whit our past experience and apply that." "Knowledge management is about improving decision making or creating the context for innovation - nothing else matters."

"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."

"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."

"Supporting and inspiring globally ambitious software companies in Scotland"

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The NetSquared Challenge Process was developed to mine, profile, and accelerate innovative projects using Web and mobile-based technologies focused on social change, locally and globally.

"TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change. Since then, we've assembled a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share this conviction. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ This network-one that you likely belong to-is working together to develop and share innovative solutions to our most urgent social challenges." \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

VISION An intelligent, open minded and free thinking society. MISSION Make knowledge and opinion, separated, both online and offline, globally available. VALUES Everyone has the right for a personal opinion. We offer an opportunity to build one. SUMMARY Newsgrape is a free text-community for the sharing of articles, which it links to each other. Writers can create Magazines to publish articles collaboratively in a group of people.