tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103526562010-03-26T13:47:18.663+01:00Andreas Breilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15834972709687832007noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-82862046377884730992010-03-26T13:30:00.005+01:002010-03-26T13:47:18.679+01:00

That is a quotation from the newspaper Sydsvenskan that describes the man from Idélaboratoriet doing his thing together with the Swedish cooking queen Tina Nordstrom during the open innovation event Minc On... . If you are curious please take a look at the live feeds from either the breakfast event or the pitching session at lunch time.

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Next week we are hosting and leading an open innovation initiative based on the power of start-up talent and star power. A dreamteam from the incubator Minc - with design as well as tech competence - will find new product and marketing ideas for the TV-Chef and Swedish superstar Tina Nordstrom - and the whole event is public... True Open Innovation! So either watch it at Bambuser or join us in

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The 10th Of April in Riyadh and the 12th of April in Dubai, please make a note in your calenders if you are in Middle East! Because on those dates we are lecturing on the topic "Sweden - World Champion of Innovation" and meeting all kinds of interesting companies and people in Saudi (Riyadh) and United Arab Emirates (Dubai and Sharjah). Join us!

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We are happy to announce that both the Danish and the English version of our book The Idea Agent is now available as e-books. Please try internet bookstores like Bokus or Adlibris for instant delivery. Watch out you Kindles and Ipads of the world - here we come!

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-6963999005460546802010-02-10T16:52:00.003+01:002010-02-10T17:08:28.171+01:00

We had an open training in Malmo a few days ago and just finalized some of the stats from the evaluation. We are proud to announce we scored 4.5 out of 5 in the overall value of the course, 4.75 out of 5 concerning the skills of the trainers and a fantastic 100% of the attendees would recommend our training to colleagues and friends. Sorry, do not mean to brag but we just needed to pad

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We had the honor to work with some highly acclaimed profesors from Karolinska Institutet and some top-notch politicians concerning the well-being of children, a subject that is dear to us all. How come that children have such a good clinical status today, but so many instead have psychological problems? The result of the assignment can hopefully be seen in exciting initiatives high-lighting the

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The course Innovative Projects, that has been given for six years at the University of Lund, is being closed because it got stuck in the university bureaucracy. It was a interdisciplinary course that was loved by the students and had a very active and entrepreneurial approach resulting in lots of companies being started at and after the course. But once again the academy could not cope with

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-41062947022550258542009-12-07T11:44:00.004+01:002009-12-07T13:55:14.148+01:00

In this clip we are in full action facilitating a process with the architects of Fojab and the construction company Skanska to create the future cityscape of a sustainable Malmo city in Sweden (the picture in the back of the room is a map of Malmo in high resolution). Live action in rapid motion!

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-64455807234957173142009-11-30T14:10:00.003+01:002009-11-30T14:23:57.655+01:00

OK, do not mean to bragg, but once again our home country of Sweden won a beauty contest in the world of innovation. Again. And this time we really scored a lot higher than all other opponents in the survey The Innovation for Development made by resarchers from IMF, OECD and the UN to name a few (no Swedish authors, just so you know!). Read the executive summary here...

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Right back from a great conference experience in Oslo where we were both facilitating the Dragon's Den like Creactive Quest and moderating a panel about innovation sitting on pilates' balls. The Next Generation of Meetings are here...

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-79958321843731808092009-11-12T10:35:00.006+01:002009-11-12T10:51:07.083+01:00

Now you have the chance to use your idea power in the name of charity. Idea Aid is a project where you give your ideas (and not your money!) in order to solve some of the toughest problems of our planet. Idea Aid invites everyone to generate ideas, collaborate and then donate their best thinking to help deserving, underfunded causes. Sign up here today!

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-59342152226530538732009-11-06T09:57:00.008+01:002009-11-09T15:14:04.700+01:00

In the business project Gather, we have formulated a vision for the physical future of meetings space and one of the partners, One Com, has produced a short vision in a film format describing how this could work on a multitouch wall. Please take a look at the future here...

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Since we have been helping out in giving courses in innovation and entrepreneurship at different universities we know that there is a lack of knowledge and lack of experience in the field of innovation in the academic world. Therefor it is great that Exnovate, a public site that tries to start some open innovation initiatives, has collected a base of good innovation case studies that can be used

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We are proud to be part of Choice Hotel's yearly conference concerning the future of meetings, Next Generation Meetings. We are both helping out with the event design and dramaturgy as well as some moderating. This year the focus is the creative meet, which has made us design the event as a developing process with the schedule following the creative flow - explore, invent, develop and act. Come

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"Innovation is more important than ever," says President Barack Obama in a new political paper: A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs. As we have said before, politicians are catching the drift, even though sometimes it feels like the wording is new and the measures are not that innovative... Read more in Business Week.

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During the Entrepreneurship Days in Gothenburg, Sweden the 4th of November there will be created a initiative to create the world's biggest ideation event. The ideation will take place in Gothenburg, on satellite places all around Sweden, and through private participation on the website. Good luck and hope to see you in Guinness Book of Records!

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We received a little present by mail the other day - a recently published book about Future Centers aka Innovation labs done by the Israeli profesor Ron Dvir. And our Minc Innovation Lab in Malmo is featured as a great example among another 30 samples of experimental meeting spaces around the world. Physical working space is going through a creative revolution - this book portrays the crack of

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We are happy to announce that we have sold out both the Danish version of our book The Idea Agent and the book about entrepreneurship, Entreprenörskap och Företagsetablering (translates into something like "Entrepreneurship and Company Start Up") that we have co-written. The reprinting of the former book is under negotiation while the second one is reprinted right now due to that it has already

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In the middle of the holiday season we went seventeen again and went to the Hultsfred' Festival to help Media Motesplats Malmo start up a new project that wants to bind the new media and music industries closer together. It was great fun to meet people like Johanna from Bokhora, Annika from Disruptive Media, Mark from Sony, Kristin from Sund, Mans from Bambuser et cetera and hear their visions

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The summer week in Almedalen on the beautiful island of Gotland, is the biggest political and business networking event in Sweden by far! This year we have been asked to participate in a seminar the 29th of June organized by the EU Innovation Year, that Sweden will be hosting as the Swedish presidency starts in July. The moderator Jonas Hallberg will be asking us about the truths of creativity

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Following the start of the EU year of Creativity and Innovation, now the individual states are really coming around and doing there own thing. The Swedish site is now launched concering activities in Sweden - Sweden is also hosting the overall EU innovation year from July because the Swedes are heading the EU during the fall - and also with some interesting articles... for example about US!

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Our newsletter is currently ranked number four in the world of innovation newsletters - and described as "hip and to the point" - presented at Idea Connection. We are proud of being part of the list but would love to become ranked at least top three, so please go in and vote for us here...

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-21940033751823931762009-05-25T10:39:00.006+02:002009-05-25T10:50:24.947+02:00

Just back from Rhodes in Greece to help the Swedish Gas Stations see and create their new future. Truly interesting to be part of such a paradigm shift for an industry. Please have a look at our short digital story below about the idea journey to Greece and beyond!

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-65469830096177805802009-04-28T13:54:00.007+02:002009-04-28T14:10:43.971+02:00

Here is a fresh picture from the design exhibition Design Passion and the Gather-concept Le Cube which we have been co-creating. Pretty cool, hein? Go there for a true on-the-spot experience!

Carl Jonas Michanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264986541313163508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10352656.post-58821484431575800402009-04-27T15:46:00.003+02:002009-04-27T15:54:14.912+02:00

We love the city of Malmo where we have our headquarters. Now we have real proof of Malmo being a true creative hotspot by international standards, because Fast Company has named Malmo one of 12 Fast Cities 2009 - Malmo being the only city in Europe that was worthy to be on the list! Come visit!

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