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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLVI: Shop Talk and Sushi

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>After Marlowe and Susan work well into the evening to develop a strategic document for the management team to review and approve, they head out for some quality co-worker time. </p>
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Innovavity: Innovation Management Training Program

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/innovavity-innovation-management-training-program/">Innovavity: Innovation Management Training Program</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>An innovation based training program that helps companies develop the skills needed to commercialise their research. This intensive four day program will assist Australian companies gain the innovation training needed to overcome one of today’s biggest growth obstacles – how to develop, protect and commercialise technology. The four day program at a glance: Innovation pre-assessment of [...]</p>
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Innovative Financing for Social Impact

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The development of investment vehicles to propel social change has evolved significantly over the past decade: from corporate responsibility mandates, microfinance and socially responsible investing to increasingly institutionalized impact investing.  We now find ourselves at an important junction, ready to set forth and explore the next stage of investment strategies that will leverage market mechanisms [...]</p>
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IP China Summit

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/ip-china-summit/">IP China Summit</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>As more and more US companies open up operations in China, intellectual property protection is becoming a higher priority considering China’s state of rapid development and reputation of lax enforcement with regards to IP rights. Ensuring IP security is of utmost importance to US corporations and is beginning to attract serious attention from the Chinese [...]</p>
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The European Intellectual Property Forum

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/the-european-intellectual-property-forum/">The European Intellectual Property Forum</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The prospect of a unitary patent in the European Union has been talked about for decades and it is now moving closer to reality. Litigation and political issues as a result of the unitary patent will be analyzed as well as practical strategies for adapting to new procedures. The EU is modernizing its framework for [...]</p>
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Latin American Innovation Forum

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/latin-american-innovation-forum/">Latin American Innovation Forum</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Now, more than ever, the spotlight is on innovation.  Several countries within Latin America have recently created new institutions to foster innovation and are creating new policies generating incentives for both financial and intellectual investment in research & development, technology manufacturing, and entrepreneurship.   This timely conference unites leading corporate executives from firms across sectors and [...]</p>
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The European Open Innovation Summit

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/the-european-open-innovation-summit/">The European Open Innovation Summit</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The European Open Innovation Summit, the only conference in Europe focused exclusively on open innovation (OI), will address key issues and uncover latest developments in efforts to utilize ideas from external groups when developing new products. This unique event will provide successful strategies for effectively collaborating with innovators outside of your group and offer solutions [...]</p>
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6th Annual Open Innovation Conference

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  <td align="left" valign="middle" id="headingtd"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/03/6th-annual-open-innovation-conference/">6th Annual Open Innovation Conference</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Enhancing the Scope of Your Creative Enterprise through Collaborative Innovation Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 6th Annual Open Innovation Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries about the critical issues central to establishing and growing the open innovation practice. Discussions will focus on the application of smart-risk strategies to the open innovation [...]</p>
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DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>DSM has recently been in the news twice. One occassion due the launch of an open innovation contest that challenges designers and creative thinkers to develop high-quality sports equipment using the company’s own Arnitel® Eco material. The other occassion because the American ethanol producer POET and DSM announced a joint venture to demonstrate commercial cellulosic bio-ethanol production and license the technology by 2013. On top of this news, Deloitte and VNCI published a report on the state of the chemical industry in the Netherlands where DSM is headquartered.</p>
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Starting Innovation Seems Easier for Smaller Companies

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>After polling innovation managers and experts from all over the world about the size of the organization in relation to the ease of starting an innovation initiative, Gijs Van Wulfen takes a look at the arguments.</p>
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Reducing Congestion – Courtesy of Technology and Business Model Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Congestion is a growing problem in towns, cities and on motorways the world over as the number of cars continues to increase. Two, currently separate but potentially converging developments, namely seriously smart driverless cars and shared ownership schemes, could reduce car ownership and congestion, while still ensuring – even extending –mobility and independence.</p>
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How Scenario Planning Can Help You Innovate Better

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group.</p>
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Growth and Stagnation – Similarities Between Ant and Man

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Sometimes we find ourselves unwillingly obeying unwritten laws and rules that hinder us from growing our business the way we want to. In this blog, Bengt Järrehult looks at studies done on ant societies and draws different parallels to human organizations. Is stagnation a natural phenomenon after a period of growth? </p>
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Tools for Business Model Innovation

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Entrepreneur and business model innovator Alexander Osterwalder discusses dynamic, yet simple-to-use tools for visualizing, challenging and re-inventing business models. Osterwalder articulates how to use the visual language of his business model canvas framework, and shares stories of how this approach helps organizations of all sizes to better create, deliver and capture value. </p>
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2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries on how to deliver timely and actionable recommendations based on sound insights and market intelligence while exploring proven strategies to carry these recommendations to market. This conference will take delegates [...]</p>
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Industrial Research Institute Shaping Innovation Leaders Course

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The Premiere Executive Management Course Designed Exclusively for Technology Leaders Managers in today’s competitive R&D marketplace rely on enhanced business skills to improve their company’s competitive edge. The Industrial Research Institute (IRI), in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management, specifically designed Shaping Innovation Leaders to meet the needs of demanding leadership roles in promising, [...]</p>
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2012 Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>“Driving Growth.  Here, There & Everywhere” Innovation is a fuel for future growth.  Many new drivers are changing the way companies are managing their innovation systems, including the pace of change, availability of talent and a reframing to a new world market. As companies examine these new markets and regions in developing their c, they [...]</p>
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How to Build Your Innovation Skills

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical.  This year, instead of the proverbial New Year’s resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it.</p>
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LegalTech

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>With trade shows in both New York and Los Angeles, LegalTech® is the #1 Resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management. LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit [...]</p>
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Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation. </p>
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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLV: What do you want from your Open Innovation Software?

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Social Product Innovation Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>My last few blog posts have detailed some of the common challenges around social product innovation and the steps companies can take to overcome them. With today’s post, I want to take a brief break from discussing challenges and talk about some predictions for social product innovation in 2012.</p>
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What’s your Point of View on Challenge Driven Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.</p>
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Product Design + Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>McLaren Automotive, Samsung, Cisco, Marks & Spencer, Bang & Olufsen, Jaguar Land Rover, Morphy Richards, Bowers & Wilkins, Huawei and Orange are among the many leading brand companies that will be sharing the secrets of successful design strategy at the second annual Product Design + Innovation conference, which takes place on 29 and 30 May [...]</p>
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InventHelp’s INPEX® 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This Open Innovation Conference, hosted by InventHelp’s INPEX, will bring together open innovation leaders and advanced practitioners from multiple industries to address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle. Hear representatives from leading companies talk about how they build and maintain sustainable innovation practices and address current open innovation challenges and opportunities. During this Open Innovation [...]</p>
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InnoTown 2012

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>InnoTown is a truly unusual business conference for people who want to open up to the new opportunities that lie beyond the traditionally tried and tested. The aim of InnoTown is to move people’s minds, both rationally and emotionally; to inspire and enhance creativity and innovation, to help motivate people to think new thoughts and [...]</p>
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ICIMT 2012 : International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The XXXII. International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Innovation, Management and Technology, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Visit the site for more information and registration.</p>
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Innovate 2012

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Global Health & Innovation Conference

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Innovations 2012 Conference

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Espresso Style DRAFT

Pulp Innovation Chapter XLVI: Shop Talk and Sushi

Innovavity: Innovation Management Training Program

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>An innovation based training program that helps companies develop the skills needed to commercialise their research. This intensive four day program will assist Australian companies gain the innovation training needed to overcome one of today’s biggest growth obstacles – how to develop, protect and commercialise technology. The four day program at a glance: Innovation pre-assessment of [...]</p>
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Innovative Financing for Social Impact

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The development of investment vehicles to propel social change has evolved significantly over the past decade: from corporate responsibility mandates, microfinance and socially responsible investing to increasingly institutionalized impact investing.  We now find ourselves at an important junction, ready to set forth and explore the next stage of investment strategies that will leverage market mechanisms [...]</p>
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IP China Summit

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The European Intellectual Property Forum

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The prospect of a unitary patent in the European Union has been talked about for decades and it is now moving closer to reality. Litigation and political issues as a result of the unitary patent will be analyzed as well as practical strategies for adapting to new procedures. The EU is modernizing its framework for [...]</p>
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Latin American Innovation Forum

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Now, more than ever, the spotlight is on innovation.  Several countries within Latin America have recently created new institutions to foster innovation and are creating new policies generating incentives for both financial and intellectual investment in research & development, technology manufacturing, and entrepreneurship.   This timely conference unites leading corporate executives from firms across sectors and [...]</p>
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The European Open Innovation Summit

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The European Open Innovation Summit, the only conference in Europe focused exclusively on open innovation (OI), will address key issues and uncover latest developments in efforts to utilize ideas from external groups when developing new products. This unique event will provide successful strategies for effectively collaborating with innovators outside of your group and offer solutions [...]</p>
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6th Annual Open Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Enhancing the Scope of Your Creative Enterprise through Collaborative Innovation Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 6th Annual Open Innovation Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries about the critical issues central to establishing and growing the open innovation practice. Discussions will focus on the application of smart-risk strategies to the open innovation [...]</p>
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DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>DSM has recently been in the news twice. One occassion due the launch of an open innovation contest that challenges designers and creative thinkers to develop high-quality sports equipment using the company’s own Arnitel® Eco material. The other occassion because the American ethanol producer POET and DSM announced a joint venture to demonstrate commercial cellulosic bio-ethanol production and license the technology by 2013. On top of this news, Deloitte and VNCI published a report on the state of the chemical industry in the Netherlands where DSM is headquartered.</p>
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Starting Innovation Seems Easier for Smaller Companies

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Reducing Congestion – Courtesy of Technology and Business Model Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Congestion is a growing problem in towns, cities and on motorways the world over as the number of cars continues to increase. Two, currently separate but potentially converging developments, namely seriously smart driverless cars and shared ownership schemes, could reduce car ownership and congestion, while still ensuring – even extending –mobility and independence.</p>
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How Scenario Planning Can Help You Innovate Better

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group.</p>
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Growth and Stagnation – Similarities Between Ant and Man

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Sometimes we find ourselves unwillingly obeying unwritten laws and rules that hinder us from growing our business the way we want to. In this blog, Bengt Järrehult looks at studies done on ant societies and draws different parallels to human organizations. Is stagnation a natural phenomenon after a period of growth? </p>
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Tools for Business Model Innovation

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2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries on how to deliver timely and actionable recommendations based on sound insights and market intelligence while exploring proven strategies to carry these recommendations to market. This conference will take delegates [...]</p>
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Industrial Research Institute Shaping Innovation Leaders Course

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The Premiere Executive Management Course Designed Exclusively for Technology Leaders Managers in today’s competitive R&D marketplace rely on enhanced business skills to improve their company’s competitive edge. The Industrial Research Institute (IRI), in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management, specifically designed Shaping Innovation Leaders to meet the needs of demanding leadership roles in promising, [...]</p>
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2012 Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting

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How to Build Your Innovation Skills

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical.  This year, instead of the proverbial New Year’s resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it.</p>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>With trade shows in both New York and Los Angeles, LegalTech® is the #1 Resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management. LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit [...]</p>
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Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation. </p>
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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLV: What do you want from your Open Innovation Software?

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Social Product Innovation Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>My last few blog posts have detailed some of the common challenges around social product innovation and the steps companies can take to overcome them. With today’s post, I want to take a brief break from discussing challenges and talk about some predictions for social product innovation in 2012.</p>
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What’s your Point of View on Challenge Driven Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.</p>
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Product Design + Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>McLaren Automotive, Samsung, Cisco, Marks & Spencer, Bang & Olufsen, Jaguar Land Rover, Morphy Richards, Bowers & Wilkins, Huawei and Orange are among the many leading brand companies that will be sharing the secrets of successful design strategy at the second annual Product Design + Innovation conference, which takes place on 29 and 30 May [...]</p>
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InventHelp’s INPEX® 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This Open Innovation Conference, hosted by InventHelp’s INPEX, will bring together open innovation leaders and advanced practitioners from multiple industries to address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle. Hear representatives from leading companies talk about how they build and maintain sustainable innovation practices and address current open innovation challenges and opportunities. During this Open Innovation [...]</p>
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InnoTown 2012

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>InnoTown is a truly unusual business conference for people who want to open up to the new opportunities that lie beyond the traditionally tried and tested. The aim of InnoTown is to move people’s minds, both rationally and emotionally; to inspire and enhance creativity and innovation, to help motivate people to think new thoughts and [...]</p>
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ICIMT 2012 : International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The XXXII. International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Innovation, Management and Technology, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Visit the site for more information and registration.</p>
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Innovate 2012

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Every organization’s ability to succeed depends on their ability to INNOVATE. This is your chance to share your story and best practices and tell the world how IBM solutions have helped you and your company innovate, transform and produce better business outcomes. As a conference speaker, you can celebrate your accomplishments and show how software [...]</p>
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Global Health & Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Attend social innovation [...]</p>
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Innovations 2012 Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Innovations 2012is the premier event for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning, and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. The conference provides a tremendous forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants exclusive access to the most inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the [...]</p>
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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLVI: Shop Talk and Sushi

Innovavity: Innovation Management Training Program

Innovative Financing for Social Impact

IP China Summit

The European Intellectual Property Forum

Latin American Innovation Forum

The European Open Innovation Summit

6th Annual Open Innovation Conference

DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

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Starting Innovation Seems Easier for Smaller Companies

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Reducing Congestion – Courtesy of Technology and Business Model Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/01/reducing-congestion-courtesy-of-technology-and-business-model-innovation/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15885" title="photo-by-revolve-eco-rally" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/photo-by-revolve-eco-rally1-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Congestion is a growing problem in towns, cities and on motorways the world over as the number of cars continues to increase. Two, currently separate but potentially converging developments, namely seriously smart driverless cars and shared ownership schemes, could reduce car ownership and congestion, while still ensuring – even extending –mobility and independence.</p>
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How Scenario Planning Can Help You Innovate Better

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/01/how-scenario-planning-can-help-you-innovate-better/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15872" title="scenario-planning-help-innovate" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/scenario-planning-help-innovate-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group.</p>
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Growth and Stagnation – Similarities Between Ant and Man

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/31/growth-and-stagnation-similarities-between-ant-and-man/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15861" title="growth-and-stagnation-similarities-ant-and-man" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/growth-and-stagnation-similarities-ant-and-man-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Sometimes we find ourselves unwillingly obeying unwritten laws and rules that hinder us from growing our business the way we want to. In this blog, Bengt Järrehult looks at studies done on ant societies and draws different parallels to human organizations. Is stagnation a natural phenomenon after a period of growth? </p>
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Tools for Business Model Innovation

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/31/tools-for-business-model-generation/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15841" title="tools-for-business-model-generation" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tools-for-business-model-generation-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Entrepreneur and business model innovator Alexander Osterwalder discusses dynamic, yet simple-to-use tools for visualizing, challenging and re-inventing business models. Osterwalder articulates how to use the visual language of his business model canvas framework, and shares stories of how this approach helps organizations of all sizes to better create, deliver and capture value. </p>
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2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries on how to deliver timely and actionable recommendations based on sound insights and market intelligence while exploring proven strategies to carry these recommendations to market. This conference will take delegates [...]</p>
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Industrial Research Institute Shaping Innovation Leaders Course

2012 Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting

How to Build Your Innovation Skills

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    <td align="left" id="headingtd" style="padding-top:0px;"><h1 class="primary-heading"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/30/how-to-build-your-innovation-skills/">How to Build Your Innovation Skills</a></h1></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/30/how-to-build-your-innovation-skills/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15803" title="how-to-build-your-innovation-skills" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/how-to-build-your-innovation-skills-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical.  This year, instead of the proverbial New Year’s resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it.</p>
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LegalTech

Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation. </p>
<a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/27/enterprise-social-media-usage-pays-off-in-innovation-and-knowledge-sharing/">Read more »</a></td>
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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLV: What do you want from your Open Innovation Software?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marlowe gathers the Accipiter executives to sit in on enthusiastic open innovation software demonstrations. Will the team arrive at the necessary conclusions about their innovation community?</p>
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Social Product Innovation Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>My last few blog posts have detailed some of the common challenges around social product innovation and the steps companies can take to overcome them. With today’s post, I want to take a brief break from discussing challenges and talk about some predictions for social product innovation in 2012.</p>
<a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/26/social-product-innovation-predictions-for-2012-and-beyond/">Read more »</a></td>
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What’s your Point of View on Challenge Driven Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/26/whats-your-point-of-view-on-challenge-driven-innovation-2/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15758" title="frank.ermark-point-of-view" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/frank.ermark-point-of-view-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.</p>
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Product Design + Innovation Conference

InventHelp’s INPEX® 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This Open Innovation Conference, hosted by InventHelp’s INPEX, will bring together open innovation leaders and advanced practitioners from multiple industries to address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle. Hear representatives from leading companies talk about how they build and maintain sustainable innovation practices and address current open innovation challenges and opportunities. During this Open Innovation [...]</p>
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InnoTown 2012

ICIMT 2012 : International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The XXXII. International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Innovation, Management and Technology, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Visit the site for more information and registration.</p>
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Innovate 2012

Global Health & Innovation Conference

Innovations 2012 Conference

Normal Style DRAFTS

Pulp Innovation Chapter XLVI: Shop Talk and Sushi

Innovavity: Innovation Management Training Program

Innovative Financing for Social Impact

IP China Summit

The European Intellectual Property Forum

Latin American Innovation Forum

The European Open Innovation Summit

6th Annual Open Innovation Conference

DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

Starting Innovation Seems Easier for Smaller Companies

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>After polling innovation managers and experts from all over the world about the size of the organization in relation to the ease of starting an innovation initiative, Gijs Van Wulfen takes a look at the arguments.</p>
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Reducing Congestion – Courtesy of Technology and Business Model Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/02/01/reducing-congestion-courtesy-of-technology-and-business-model-innovation/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15885" title="photo-by-revolve-eco-rally" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/photo-by-revolve-eco-rally1-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Congestion is a growing problem in towns, cities and on motorways the world over as the number of cars continues to increase. Two, currently separate but potentially converging developments, namely seriously smart driverless cars and shared ownership schemes, could reduce car ownership and congestion, while still ensuring – even extending –mobility and independence.</p>
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How Scenario Planning Can Help You Innovate Better

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group.</p>
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Growth and Stagnation – Similarities Between Ant and Man

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;" id="postimage"><a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/31/growth-and-stagnation-similarities-between-ant-and-man/"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-15861" title="growth-and-stagnation-similarities-ant-and-man" src="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/growth-and-stagnation-similarities-ant-and-man-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></td>
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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Sometimes we find ourselves unwillingly obeying unwritten laws and rules that hinder us from growing our business the way we want to. In this blog, Bengt Järrehult looks at studies done on ant societies and draws different parallels to human organizations. Is stagnation a natural phenomenon after a period of growth? </p>
<a href="http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2012/01/31/growth-and-stagnation-similarities-between-ant-and-man/">Read more »</a></td>
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Tools for Business Model Innovation

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Entrepreneur and business model innovator Alexander Osterwalder discusses dynamic, yet simple-to-use tools for visualizing, challenging and re-inventing business models. Osterwalder articulates how to use the visual language of his business model canvas framework, and shares stories of how this approach helps organizations of all sizes to better create, deliver and capture value. </p>
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2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marcus Evans invites you to attend our 2nd Annual Consumer Insights in New Product Design and Delivery Conference. Hear from leading executives within various industries on how to deliver timely and actionable recommendations based on sound insights and market intelligence while exploring proven strategies to carry these recommendations to market. This conference will take delegates [...]</p>
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Industrial Research Institute Shaping Innovation Leaders Course

2012 Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting

How to Build Your Innovation Skills

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical.  This year, instead of the proverbial New Year’s resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it.</p>
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LegalTech

Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation. </p>
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Pulp Innovation Chapter XLV: What do you want from your Open Innovation Software?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Marlowe gathers the Accipiter executives to sit in on enthusiastic open innovation software demonstrations. Will the team arrive at the necessary conclusions about their innovation community?</p>
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Social Product Innovation Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>My last few blog posts have detailed some of the common challenges around social product innovation and the steps companies can take to overcome them. With today’s post, I want to take a brief break from discussing challenges and talk about some predictions for social product innovation in 2012.</p>
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What’s your Point of View on Challenge Driven Innovation?

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.</p>
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Product Design + Innovation Conference

InventHelp’s INPEX® 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>This Open Innovation Conference, hosted by InventHelp’s INPEX, will bring together open innovation leaders and advanced practitioners from multiple industries to address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle. Hear representatives from leading companies talk about how they build and maintain sustainable innovation practices and address current open innovation challenges and opportunities. During this Open Innovation [...]</p>
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InnoTown 2012

ICIMT 2012 : International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology

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    <td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #999;"><p>The XXXII. International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Innovation, Management and Technology, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Visit the site for more information and registration.</p>
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