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"Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors"

" This article by KIN Associate Prof Rob Cross highlights some key factors affecting knowledge flows in relation to innovation"

"FT article on 'Crowdsourcing' ideas - exploitation or does everyone win? "

" 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."

" Tim O'Reilly mashes it up... In the first segment of a two-part interview, technology guru Tim O'Reilly outlines his views on open source in an interview with the BBC World Service programme Go Digital. "

" Creative Commons provide free tools that let anyone easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry."

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

"In Outside Innovation, Patricia Seybold, argues that the only way organizations can break out of the pack is to open up their entire business to passionate customers and welcome them into every aspect of product and service design."

"This book explains the power of collaborative production; a compendium of ways to throw open previously guarded intellectual property and to invite in previously unavailable ideas that hide within the populace at large. A primer for mass collaboration possibilities. This review link is to Amazon.com. It is also available from Amazon.co.uk "

" A useful blog for perspectives on developments in innovative organisations."

""InnoCentive® is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. We provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives.""

" Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute. This innovative cross-party collaboration site was kindly brought to our attention by Dan Ranta of ConcoPhillips"

"Inxight is a product which can be used to trawl an organisations deepest data repositories to surface patterns and semantic clusters. ConocoPhillips will be investigating this tool over Summer 2007"

" The National Innovation Centre (NIC) is part of the Technology and Production Innovation Directorate of the NHS Institute which aims to improve healthcare through technological innovations. Anyone can assess their idea via an online assessment and share their assessment with the NIC if they wish. The NIC considers whether the idea helps to meet a priority area in healthcare and may be able to support the development of the innovation. "

" backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent. Content feeds are available for people to build with on a non-commercial basis."

" backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent. Content feeds are available for people to build with on a non-commercial basis."

"This Australian start-up doesn't make beer, it sells the customer's idea of what their beer should be. "

Venue - 'Uplands' near High Wycombe"