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""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.""

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

"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 "

"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."

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

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

" 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. "

" 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."

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

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

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

" Research by Sue Newell focuses on innovation, specifically, on understanding how knowledge is transferred and innovation fostered within and across organizations. Much of her work has taken place at ikon, a research unit for innovation, knowledge and organizational networking that she co-founded at the University of Warwick in the U.K. "

"Senior Vice President with MWH Global who has the role of Chief People and Knowledge Officer for the company. "

"Book recommended by Nick Milton"

"Book recommended by Nick Milton"

"Paper recommended by Nick Milton"

" CIPD Change Agenda paper including case studies from NHS, Royal Bank of Scotland, PWC and IBM. "

" Article from manufacturing industry providing introductory outline. "

" Online version of the journal"

" Report of recent US survey of HR Managers reveals lack of preparation for demographic changes and lack of knowledge strategies to address them… "In the USA only 12% of HR Managers see Knowledge Retention as a priority despite the fact that 20% of the workforce will be eligible for retirement over the next few years…""