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Excellent blog on how the West can learn from innovations in developing countries. This may use digital media as an example, but the principle must surely apply to solution finding and innovation in many contexts.

Harrah's, the casino entertainment company, is beginning to explore how to create commercially useful knowledge by applying a much-hyped knowledge management tool-prediction markets-in a very new contex

" 'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article on how the Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. Thanks to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing this article out."

MIT Sloane article from Julian Birkinshaw, LBS, debunking commonly held beliefs about innovation

Presentation from Charles Leadbeater on 'Transformative Public Service Innovation' at the Knowledge Hub Conference

2 minute video of Sharon Chang talking about the 'sharing economy' as an example of a paradigm shift in innovation

"How Can Web Technologies Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?"

" Experienced based design (ebd) is a new way of bringing patients and staff together to share the role of improving care and re-designing services. It is being developed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement as a way of helping frontline NHS teams make the improvements their patients really want."

" This article from New Scientist shows how a bit of showmanship can get an innovation rapidly adopted."

"'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article from Business Week Magazine. The Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. The importance of particular kinds of diversity are also explored. If you want to know more about Prediction Markets, we are building a considerable KIN resource on this here and the KIN Quarterly Workshop on 2nd December will cover this topic. Thanks go to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing out this fascinating article. "

" BBC Radio 4 'In Business' with Peter day 11th Jan 2007. A great introduction to 'open source'. The history and future of the phenomenon of open source computing. This is highly relevant to our July 4th KIN Workshop on 'open innovation' where we will explore whether the open-source model can apply to other business innovation."

"Link to UK Department of Trade & Industry Innovation Site"

"Sloane MIT Review article"

"Prof Gary Hamel of Harvard Business School uses the metaphor of learning golf as a way of illustrating the futility of simply providing tools for innovation"

" At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't). Tim Brown is the CEO of the "innovation and design" firm Ideo - taking an approach to innovation that digs deeper than the surface. "

"The Innovation Maturity Map from Think For A Change, LLC could stimulate some intersting conversations. For example, the progress across each row seems reasonable but are the attributes at each Level consistent?" Christopher Dean

A different sort of maturity model specifically for Innovation

New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap.

A must-read article for anyone interested in innovation in large corporations

Today we face an entirely new environment for innovation and getting things done. The days of the lone genius quietly toiling away in pursuit of that 'Eureka' moment to revolutionise an industry are all but over. We are now in the days of asking and listening to our customers and working with them in our innovation cycles. Innovation demands collaboration. So does production. In the past we could focus on a single task in an assembly-line fashion, handing our completed activity to the next person who would in turn do the same, until the job was finished. Now the jobs change fast, requiring learning new skills rather than merely repeating the old. We have to seek out people who have other pieces of the puzzle and work with them to tackle increasingly complex issues at a much faster pace.

Innovation based on reuse of ideas. Making existing products, developed over many years (in this instance vodka) even better.