Pivot Thinking: The Neuroscience of Design
A cognitive problem solving style that easily pivots or shifts between convergent or divergent problem solution possibilities. The conceptual model for pivot thinking assumes that problem solving preferences are generally…
Understanding the Dynamics of System Changes
What makes systemic innovation possible? what prompts it to happen? Technology may prompt change – the emergence of mobile phone technologies; electricity; fuel cells. in these cases the opportunity space…
16th Annual Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering Conference 2014
16th Annual Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering Conference Website February 10-12, 2014 Newport Beach, California This annual event provides corporate investors with strategies to gain a competitive advantage through corporate…
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2014
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2014 Website April 12-13 2014 Yale University, USA The largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than…
Innovation and Well-being indicators
How should one measure well-being? Money is not everything. There are many more features that shape people‟s lives. How comfortable is their housing? How clean and safe is their local…
Sectoral Innovation Metrics
Sectors innovate differently and the metrics used to measure innovation in one sector may therefore not be as important to others. For example, architectural services learn a lot from the …
Innovation Networks Dimensions
Shorter innovation cycles, the escalating costs of industrial research and development as well as the dearth of resources force companies to find new ways of accelerating their innovation process. Innovation…
Knowledge Exploitation path to Innovation
Knowledge exploitation is the process of transforming, combining and reshaping knowledge in the form of research, science and technology into a tradable commodity. It is the general capacity to use…
Absorptive Capacity and Development Capacity
The innovation capacity of places combines two broad sets of capacities: their absorptive and development capacity. The absorptive capacity of places to identify, value, and assimilate potentially profitable external knowledge…
Absorptive capacity and economic development
The geography of innovation is diverse and uneven. Each city or region’s specialist knowledge depends on its economic and industrial structure; these structures consequently create diversity between places. By the…
7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Website July 24-26 2013 Menlo Park, California, USA Digital Ecosystems inherit concepts of open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, domain clustered, agent-based self-organized…
International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013)
2013 ASE/IEEE I International Conference on Big Data Website September 8-14, 2013 Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Washington DC. USA The current focus is to advance the core scientific and technological…
2nd International Congress on Big Data 2013
2nd International Congress on Big Data Website June 27-July 2, 2013 Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA BigData 2013’s major topics include but not limited to: Big Data Architecture, Big Data…
Benchmarking Analysis Implications
Benchmarking involves examining firms with a world-class product/service, process, or strategy and incorporating the best ideas from them into your own business in order to gain a competitive advantage. Benchmarking…
Product Differentiation Focus
A product or business with a differentiation strategy appeals to the mass market but seeks to set it apart by offering a product that is better than the competitors in…
Focused Reputation Analysis
Reputation analysis identifies a firm’s or industry’s perceptual image among key stakeholders based on a given set of factors. This is to enable it to improve its relations with them…
Strategic Rationale for Technology Forecasting
The importance of technology forecasting is its ability to inform current and future investment decisions throughout a business. It can provide valuable information about the likely longevity of a technology.…
Inter-organizational Business Analysis Pitfalls
When analysis is ineffective, both the analyst and the decision maker often don’t recognize it in time and frequently cannot identify the root cause(s) of the errors, problems, or failure.…