Idélaboratoriet – Innovation and Idea Management Consulting Services

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Idélaboratoriet specializes in Innovation Culture and Idea Management. This intriguing field takes many forms: Innovation strategy planning, Idea management facilitation, training programs in professional idea creation and digital idea management solutions are all good examples of how we create value for our clients.

Innovation in India - Cows or Karma?

We have gotten used to the fact that everybody is outsourcing IT-services left and right (or more accurately, east and south), but the question is if this also means that the Western world is outsourcing its future innovation potential? Is India an innovation power to look out for?

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The Idea Agent
Finally the best book on practical idea management is available in English GO

Training programs
A substantial toolkit and hands-on practice in professional idea work. GO

The Innovation Scorecard
Try out our online innovation assessment tool. GO

Creative Space Design
The physical environment affects our brain much more than we think. GO

MindManager
Build your mind maps with the leading
mind mapping application.
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Friday, April 21, 2006

The Best Book on Creativity

People often ask me what the best book on creativity is. And I always want to answer that the book I have written is the one. But I do not. Because the best book on creativity and the best book covering the research of creativity in various fields (everything from sociology to cognitive studies) is the Yale Professor Robert J. Sternberg's anthology Handbook of Creativity. There you have it. Read it!

Monday, April 17, 2006

Need for a Swedish Innovation Minister

I have for a long while argued in my key note speeches that Sweden needs and Innovation Minister. Last year the Wim Kok-report argued the same: all the EU-countries should appoint an minister of innovation. Now the biggest newspaper in Sweden, Dagens Nyheter, has caught on as well on the opionon page! They do not have any suggestions of a person, so here is some help... What about a mix of the Ericsson-boss Carl-Henric Svanberg and Benny of ABBA. A great mix for Cool Sweden!