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Creating Purposeful Innovation

Creativity drives purposeful innovation. Continue reading

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We are living in a time when good ideas are coming from emerging countries, and Latin America is one of three regions where multinationals companies are expected to grow further this year 2012.
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Andy Warhol and The Innovation Factory

Andy Warhol, The Factory and The Velvet Underground were synonymous with a groundbreaking synaesthesia in music and art in the 1960’s. Their influence has been pervasive over nearly 50 years on people such as … Continue reading

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Accelerate Innovation in Your Organization

Are you looking for a way to increase the innovation knowledge in your organization? Looking for a way to begin installing a common innovation language in your organization? Well then, why not do what some of the leading organizations around the world are doing, and go ahead and integrate some Innovation Excellence RSS feeds from the more than 4,000 articles into your corporate portal, innovation management system, or open innovation community. Continue reading

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Innovation Flow - personal mastery explored

Mastery, unconscious competence, effortless genius. These are all ways to describe the state of ‘flow’. At a personal level, innovation excellence relies on our ability to master the state of effortless genius. What can we learn about ‘flow’ from music that we can transfer to the world of innovation and personal excellence?
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The Diversity of University Tech Transfer Strategy

At the risk of stating the obvious, all universities are similar, but each one is different. Just when you think you’ve got a key piece of university tech transfer strategy figured out — like peeling the proverbial onion — you unearth another layer you haven’t even considered. (Actually, in this case, onions are much too stolid and predictable – maybe raking leaves on a windy day would be a better analogy.) Continue reading

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