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From About page: "InnoCentive is the open innovation and crowdsourcing pioneer that enables organizations to solve their key problems by connecting them to diverse sources of innovation including employees, customers, partners, and the world's largest problem solving marketplace." Innocentive works with corporations, non profits, government, etc. *See Resources section for white paper and webinar.

"What is LIVING LAB? LIVING LAB is a research and development infrastructure to research human interaction with, and stimulate the adoption of, sustainable, smart and healthy innovations around the home. Occupant interaction with the home can be studied in an adaptable and controllable home environment. This way the technical development, the implementation and the social uptake of sustainable innovations can be accelerated. LIVING LAB brings together Europe's top research institutes and companies and aims to stimulate cooperative projects in the fields of user centred research and product development."

By David Nagel, in Policy & Advocacy section of THE Journal, April 23 2010. The article announces the newly published National Educational Technology Trends: 2010, Innovation Through State Leadership report, published by State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). Trends include "enhancing teacher effectiveness" through professional development and "scaling up success" by expanding innovative programs that have worked. Report is bookmarked as well, see trends_edtech tag.

By Charles Ehin, September 2, 2009 on Knowledge Board. Author "explains why knowledge workers who want to expand the innovative capacities of their organisations need to pay much closer attention to human nature."

From Wikipedia, essentially "Diffusion of Innovations is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures."

This is the table of contents (in draft form) from the pre-publication version of Open Innovation, edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, and published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Each chapter title links to the PDF of the draft version of the chapter. For more information on the book, including how to find the finished version, click on the home page link at the bottom.

This is the blog from nuPolis (for more on nuPolis see tag "nupolis") with regular postings on innovation in a variety of fields, including education.

This site bills itself as "your one stop shop for higher education news, collaboration and innovation." There are a variety of resources (websites, videos, webinars, etc.), as well as forums and groups. Because the site promotes collaboration, membership is encouraged.

By Jim Shelton and John Easton of the U.S. Education Department. The authors blogged as part of the National Journal's Expert Blogs - Education area. In the initial post, Shelton and Easton post some questions about effective innovation. In the comments section (24 posted as of 4/1/10), others in the field respond.

By Pete Plastrik on nuPOLIS, April 15 2010, 2 quick facts relevant to social innovation.

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

U.S. government's clearinghouse for public projects where they are looking for crowdsourced solutions. Some projects look for apps and other "innovative tools." Others are more like contests. You can browse by category or by government agency.

Tagline: A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshine thinking and teamwork. Similar to TED talks, but with a (so far) much smaller archive, each talk in this series focuses on solving a "moonshot" problem, generally through significant and radical innovation. From their About page, "Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."

This bookmark came from delicious, where we had bookmarked the Social Impact Investment Prospectus (pdf). However, the site as a whole seems very relevant to KPI current work. One project is a new report, College Access and Success. They also sponsor an annual Social Innovation Forum.

This Center began as a collaboration between Columbia University Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. From "What We Do," "The Center works primarily through projects in different institutional settings, such as higher education, low-wage work, criminal justice, and housing. Each of the projects brings together creative and committed researchers, practitioners, and students to address problems involving structural inequality, and to do so through examining innovation."

Posted by Robert Jacobs in Education Innovation (blog) on September 2, 2010. The model for school change that Jacobs outlines looks very similar to the GSCC project, in that both look at what's working and how it might be replicated, focusing on the positive (solution) rather than the more negative (problem). NOTE: The Harvard Business Review article that Jacobs refers to was published in 2005.

This journal, published since January 2004, looks to address research and innovation in teaching and learning. The journal is refereed. All issues and articles from this journal are available for free download.

This blog provides current news on open innovation conferences, presentations, etc. Most months, there are 1-2 new posts.

This bibliography is based on the book Open Innovation: Research for a New Paradigm, as well as the 2004 Academy of Management workshop, and was last updated in February 2008.

Provided by Futurelab, Education Eye "brings you a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily." (from About page). At first blush, the site might seem tricky to navigate, but it is loaded with interesting ideas. Entries are color-coded (key is on the left), and you can also search for specific terms.