Taking Swedish Technology Transfer to a Higher Level
Throughout Europe, the number of individuals working professionally with knowledge and technology transfer is growing. However, in Sweden tech transfer professionals are not yet recognized as a profession. This is something that the new Swedish Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer Support, SNITTS, intends to change. SNITTS, a nonprofit organization, offers a platform for technology transfer professionals to share experiences and improve competence.
The importance of storytelling in creative leadership: An interview with Michael Margolis
In this interview, Michael Margolis explains the importance of storytelling as part of the paradigm of creative leadership.
How Philips’ Open Campus Breeds Innovation
As Business Development Manager at Philips Research, Gerjan van de Walle was instrumental in opening up the electronics giant’s development facility in The Netherlands to competing companies, and making open innovation the ‘buzzwords of the day’. InnovationManagement.se asked him about the process, the difficulties he had to overcome and the advantages are of cramming thousands of engineers and researchers into one square kilometre.
Creating actionable knowledge through close ties with industry
Sofia Börjesson is Director of the Center for Business Innovation (CBI) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. She is Associate Professor in Technology Management and has extensive experience in leading university-company research projects. Professor Börjesson’s university office is frequently unoccupied – she spends a great deal of time visiting companies and organizations in order to see at first hand and to understand how they are working with innovation. She brings with her the latest academic trends based on the work of her group at CBI and their research in the field, in order to help firms to become more innovative and more efficient. InnovationManagement.se asked her a few questions.
Intel Initiative Aims for More IT Enabled Innovation
The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) is a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium. IVI researches and develops unifying frameworks and road-maps for IT and Business executives to create more value from IT and better deliver IT enabled innovation.
Adding Value to Customers Through Collaborative Innovation
The role of innovation in industry has changed. What used to be a closed and often secretive exclusive business of the R&D department is now being transformed to an open and collaborative eco system in many companies. InnovationManagement.se spoke to GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director at Logica about the role of innovation.
When no one wants to change: 6 questions that lower the defenses to improving innovation
Why is change so hard? Most people will tell you that it’s because people naturally resist change. I really like Eli Goldratt’s response to this argument: If a very wealthy person that you knew and [...]
Innovation and Customer Insight at Ericsson
A desire to act as a bridge builder between technology and people has taken him from Sweden to New Delhi where he now heads Ericsson ConsumerLab Asia Pacific, a unit within the Ericsson Group that gathers in, processes and analyses data on end consumer needs. Their surveys are based on a cross section of the world’s population in all parts of the world.
How organizations can access their latent creative capacity: Dr. Win Wenger interview
In this latest interview in the Creativity in Business series, Dr. Win Wenger explains how organizations can draw upon more of their latent creative capacity to meet their own needs and that of the greater good.
“We are in a Major Paradigm Shift”
We are in the middle of a huge shift in our economy. According to Eric von Hippel, one of the hottest names in the area of innovation, that also includes a major paradigm shift, from closed manufacturer-centered innovation to an innovation system centered on “open” - intellectual property-free - innovation that is often developed by users. Manufacturers have to learn how to adapt their business models to this.
Use the Creativity of Users to Develop Better Innovations
There is an urgent need to rethink the way firms innovate. We need to change from a manufacturer-active perspective to a user-active perspective, according to professor Nikolaus Franke of Vienna University. The Lead user method, Toolkits for user innovation and Innovation communities. These are three ways that firms can apply to benefit from users innovativeness and create better innovations and more value and growth.
Is Denmark a Lead User of User Driven Innovation?
You might think so since the world’s first government sponsored user driven innovation program is to be found in Denmark. The program aims to strengthen the diffusion of methods for user driven innovation and to contribute to increased growth in the participating companies. It also aims to increase user satisfaction and/or increased efficiency in participating public institutions. Søren Tegen Pedersen is the Deputy Director at the administrative authority of the program.
Meeting of innovative minds
Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation, was one of the key note speakers when more than 500 innovative minds met on a European innovation conference in Lund, Sweden. InnovationManagemenet.se asked him and some of the other participants a few questions.
Creativity is a vital part of the new business paradigm, says Russ Schoen
Creativity in business: An interview with Russ Schoen.
Creativity in Business: Interview with Holacracy Pioneer Brian Robertson
The fifth interview in the creativity in business thought leader aeries is with Brian Robertson, a pioneer of holacracy, a new organizational operating system noted for dramatically increasing agility, transparency, innovation and accountability.
The new paradigm of innovative work: An interview with Larry Blumsack
This week's interview in the creativity in business thought leader series is with Larry Blumsack, founder and director of Zoka Institute, a creativity and innovation consulting, training, and coaching company.
The Emerging Paradigm of Work: An Interview with Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz
In this latest interview in the creativity in business thought leader series, Michelle James talks with Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz.
Mike Bonifer of GameChangers reflects on creativity and the changing nature of work
My second interview in the Creativity in Business thought leader series is with Mike Bonifer, co-founder of GameChangers and author of GameChangers: Improvisation for Business in the Networked World. He writes about and teaches improvisation for business.
Creativity in business: An interview with Paul Scheele
This is the first in a series of posts based on interviews and dialogues with creativity and innovation thought leaders around the topic of applied creativity in business. In this interview, Paul Scheele, chairman of Natural Brilliance Productions, shares his thoughts on business creativity, creative leadership and the emerging business paradigm.
100.000 Heads are Better than One
InnovationManagement.se got an exclusive interview with Ben du Pont, co-founder and president of Yet2.com, one of the world’s first open innovation platforms. Read more about Ben´s thoughts about open innovation and how companies can benefit from it.
Time to Challenge the Patent Portfolio
Many companies pay substantial yearly fees in order to protect their patents. But what business benefit do these patents really generate?
Henry Chesbrough About the Future of Open Innovation
Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open innovation. InnovationManagement.se asked him about the concept and how companies can benefit from working with Open innovation.
How do you Measure Innovation Results and Outcomes?
The sixth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is the all-import issue of metrics: How do you measure innovation results and outcomes and motivate the organization to deliver across all stages of the process, and what are the best metrics for measuring innovation performance?
How to use creative problem solving to get a job – even during an economic downturn
The late Earl Nightingale, known as "the dean of personal development," once related this story in one of his audiotapes that speaks to the challenges we face today, and why creative problem solving is more important than ever.