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Florence: Lessons from a Global Innovation Hub

While discussing innovative cities, one can’t help but think about those that were major catalysts for change in the past: Athens, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Florence, for example. But how do they compare to more modern innovation hubs such as Silicon Valley, London, or Singapore? In this article, we’ll look at Florence - and 10 recognizable and applicable elements that contributed to its success throughout the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. We’ll also look at how Florence spurs innovation today.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:55:06-08:00April 24th, 2017|Categories: Editorial|Tags: Best Practices, civic leadership, Collaboration, florence, influence, innovation history, innovation hub, innovation hubs, innovative cities, Italy, leadership, lessons learned, talent|

A Look Back at Three Innovations that Have Changed Our Lives

Nowadays, the words “innovation” and “creativity” get thrown around a lot in the business and academic world. But the road to making successful innovations is filled with challenges, opportunities taken or missed, and plenty strikes of luck. Often, people invent machines to face a recurrent problem. These inventions, in turn, spawn other inventions and innovation. These types of inventions have the most impact on society. Here’s looking at three inventions that have changed our lives forever.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:47:55-08:00April 4th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: automotive industry, Creativity, disruption, disruptive innovation, gutenberg, innovation history, invention, sewing machine|

Platform Disruption Wave

In the new global environment innovation is tending towards Platform Disruption, and is more focused on waves of change than single technology disruptions. The competitive capability of different innovation cultures, rather than technology, therefore becomes the critical success factor. In this article, Haydn Shaughnessy examines product and service platforms as the new organisational form and suggests that modern enterprises need to take the leap to a new way of business.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:19:43-08:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, Change Management, china, clayton christensen, Competition, digital innovation, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, global market, in-depth article, industry innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation history, Innovation Management, IP & patent, leadership, mobile, P2P, platform, Platform Disruption, platform innovation, Problem Solving, research, risk management, Samsung, scaling up, Technology, uber|

Open Innovation: Lego and Bagels

Arguably, the principle of Open Innovation was utilised for the first time by Professor James Murray in 19th Century Oxford, England. In the time that has passed since then, this concept has become infinitely easier to implement thanks to the development of Innovation Management technology, however some companies are yet to wake up to its potential.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:40-07:00December 16th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: case study, collective intelligence, Communication, Crowdsourcing, Henry Chesbrough, innovation history, innovation success, Open Innovation, risk management, social media, software, voice of customer|

Innovation: at the Heart of the Disruptive Machine

Can the concept of disruptive innovation be applied in a systematc way? In this article the writer/researcher offers a retrospective view of the history of innovation, its incubation, periods of economically revolutionary change and how cultural, geographic and political influences gave rise to the evolvement of global organisations. It then goes on to explain the face of innovation setting a cultural consensus that could mean for the global 2000 in terms of a new incentivised direction.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:16-07:00July 11th, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: clayton christensen, disruption, disruptive innovation, innovation history, knowledge, research|

What Are Innovation Ecosystems and How To Build and Use Them

The innovation ecosystem is not new but it certainly has many new features. Jorn Bang Andersen looks back at the evolution of the innovation ecosystem, where it is now headed and how companies can develop ecosystem strategies.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:16:58-08:00May 16th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: economic development, ecosystem, global market, innovation champion, innovation drivers, innovation history, Innovation Leadership, innovation life cycle processes, Innovation Management, innovation networks, Innovation Strategy, silicon valley, strategic partnership|

Discover New Possibilities with Reverse Innovation

Before the radical shifts in technology disrupt the industry fabric, there exists a great potential to appropriate value from the market through incremental product and business model innovations. The less intense the competition, less matured the market - larger is the potential. The emerging markets of the world the BRICs (where s could stand for the plurality as well as South Africa), have long been projected as the markets to invest in.

Ideascale2021-12-01T13:49:54-08:00July 2nd, 2010|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: automotive industry, BRIC, Business Model Innovation, china, emerging markets, Germany, incremental improvements, incremental innovation, india, innovation history, innovation trends, opportunity, Product Development, product improvement, regulations, reverse innovation, value creation, value proposition, value stream|