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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
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Idea Agent 2.0 - Now On a Bookshelf Near You!
The new Swedish version of of our book The Idea Agent - a handbook in idea management, is now for sale in a bookstore near you. It does not only include a foreword by the management guru Kjell A. Nordstrom, it is also quite a bit cheaper than before. Isn't development and innovation fantastic? Everything gets better and better and cheaper and cheaper...
Nobel Prize Winner in Almedalen Almedalen, on wonderful Gotland, is the center of Swedish POWER once again this summer. Today the Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps entered the stage in the PR-Tivoli in Almdedalen just to say what everybody knew - Sweden needs entrepreneurship and innovation! What he put emphasis on was that Sweden need more dynamics. Phelps seemed to mean that we need to toss things up in the air some more and enter different forms of creative destruction. You know what - he might have a point there...
Open Innovation and Future Space Travel
Nothing scares the IPR department like the magic words "open innovation". Apparently one of the most secret organizations in the world, namely NASA, holds external design and innovation contests to rake in some novel ideas on their specific challenges (article in the New York Times Magazine). Another example is Procter & Gamble who also experiments with open innovation. It's not scary guys; it's just one of the many ways you need to be open to in order to stay ahead...
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