The Lead Market Initiative for Europe is expected to foster the emergence of markets with high economic and societal value. On the basis of intense stakeholder consultations, six markets have been identified against a set of objective criteria; eHealth, protective textiles, sustainable construction, recycling, bio-based products and renewable energies. Continue reading
Watch:
Innovation
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.
The eighth edition of the Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard Continue reading
The Economist has published a special report on innovation. The magazine spotlights on the open innovation – the notion of looking for bright ideas outside of an organisation. It provides a good, and critical overview featuring among others Professor Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Larry Page, co-founder of Google. Continue reading
A NYT article highlights the importance of process innovation in the development of successful products. By providing examples from technology companies such as Apple, Google and Intel argues that process innovations, while highly complex and lacking glamour, are an essential part of establishing a winning edge in commercial electronics. Continue reading
The Business of Innovation is a series of 5 one-hour programmes produced by CNBC which explores in-depth on of the most important topics in the business world today – Innovation. Continue reading
As every year, MIT’s Technology Review magazine presents the 10 technologies that it finds most exciting–and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. Continue reading
OVO, a company that builds Innovation Applications, has been working to define an “end to end” process that supports innovation, and to define the tools and software necessary to support that process. To that end, it has put together the diagram on the left to start a discussion about innovation processes and tools. Continue reading