The European Year of Creativity and Innovation has the objective to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, Continue reading →

The 2007 Booz Allen Hamilton report on Global Innovation 1000 argues that statistical analysis of a representative sample of global innovation 1000 companies divided them into three distinct categories of innovation strategy: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Technology Drivers. Continue reading →

More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on, according to the latest issue of TIME Magazine. The magazine publishes a list of 10 ideas that are changing the world: Common Wealth, The End of Customer Service, The Post-Movie-Star Era, Reverse Radicalism, Kitchen Chemistry, Geoengineering, Synthetic Authenticity, The New Austerity, Mandatory Health, and Re-Judaizing Jesus. Continue reading →

The key to the UK becoming a world leader in innovation is to forge closer links between industry and higher education, according to “Innovation Nation’ White Paper, published by the Department for innovation, Universities & Skills. Continue reading →

 The 2008 Horizon Report   describes six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC)  and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Continue reading →

Each year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine publishes its list of 10 emerging technologies that its editors believe will be particularly important over the next few years. This is work ready to emerge from the lab, in a broad range of areas: energy, computer hardware and software, biological imaging, and more. Continue reading →

The first issue of the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (IJIRD) is available from the IJIRD home page (www.inderscience.com/ijird). This issue contains five papers which the reader may download free-of-charge. Continue reading →