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Ordering information

The Idea Agent is available from all the major on- and offline bookstores. If you prefer to get it straight from the source, then use the following links:

Swedish version 2.0:
Book house publishing

Danish version:
Jyllands-Posten forlag

English version
Idélaboratoriet directly

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The Idea Agent

(Available in Swedish, Danish and English)

The Idea Agent is a practical idea management handbook. It mixes the creatively wild with the rationally structured ways of building innovation. The book starts out with methods on how to identify the problem or opportunity and continues with several different creative techniques used for idea creation. Going forward the Idea Agent covers examples and different ways on how to screen, evaluate and enrich the ideas into functional
ideas & concepts.

The book is aimed at people that want to take an active role in creative processes in all areas. An Idea Agent is a person that can create the base for optimal development and has a tool box of proven idea management methodology in his or her back pocket. This is a not a philosophical book concerning the essence of creativity and innovation, but a professional step-by-step guide into building creative concepts for the market place. The book is therefore a working companion that should be read, written in, and used as support at the very moment the Idea Agent designs and facilitates the innovation processes. Welcome to the world of ideas!

Reviews & Endorsements

"The advantages of the book:
A display of how the idea driven company should work. The writing is pedagogical and easy to comprehend. The book is generously filled with exercises and techniques. The different format and design together with descriptions, symbols and colors work as clear signals. A "schoolbook" at it's best. 
... and the disadvantages:
This book deserves no minuses. It is altogether too well made for that."

Book review in the leading Swedish leadership magazine CHEF
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"The Idea Agent is an educational pearl; it gives insight in the authors many years of experience with managing innovation and creative processes in a way that puts this book in a league of its own. There is only one thing to say after having read this book: Welcome to the world of creativity, ideas and opportunity. The Idea Agent is a book that makes you both wise and happy."

Uffe Elbæk
Principal, Kaospilot University
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"Most companies don't have a shortage of ideas, but a shortage of the right ones. How to best find and develop ideas is the very foundation for all innovation. The Idea Agent hits the bull's eye with a practical handbook you want to read again and again."

Jørgen Thorball
Director of Novozymes Biotech Business Development and co-founder of the Danish innovation council.
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"The growing importance of innovation can almost be measured by the explosion in the number of books published on the subject. But despite the acknowledged need to make innovation more accessible, so many of books seem to make it complex or specialize on one area of innovation. In this sense, Idéagenten is a great achievement. It is great to see all the key aspects of idea management brought together so practically in one place, in a book that doesn't over claim and is a pleasure to read."

Paul Sigsworth
Creativity Development, Nestlé Rowntree
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"In a world where most business books are conceptualizing themselves into useless oblivion, it is refreshing to get my hands on a book that is packed with down to earth tools.
This is a book you immediately can work with, not one you just read in order to file it under:
'Duh.. sorta interesting'.
A book so practical and useful, it should be marked with an official DIY-seal of approval.
Very practical and tool-oriented. Most books will give you a concept, but require consulting in order to become useful. Here you get the down-to-earth goodies included in the book.
This book fills a gap in my collection. Creativity and innovation doesn't have to be chaotic and confused, and the book provides hands-on tools on how to lure out and manage a company's inherent ideas."

Patrick Stahl

Mr. Knusperfrisch and former Fluidmind business revolutionary
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"I congratulate the writers and the forthcoming readers to a book that is truly hands-on. I am impressed by all the practical process design suggestions that is in the book. The Idea Agent is a practical guide on how to reach the window of opportunity in the age of creativity”

Leif Edvinsson

Professor, Intellectual Capital,
University of Lund – School of Economics
and Global Brain of the Year 1998
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"The Idea Agent is an excellent contribution in increasing the understanding and knowledge of the processes that lays the foundation for successful idea management. The idea process is often poorly conducted in many companies because of the lack of knowledge. This book can fill some of the knowledge gaps that exist by presenting many practical methods and techniques which are the basis for an effective use of the intrinsic creativity of your staff.”

Sven Andrén
Global process driver, Idea Management, Tetra Pak
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”Creativity and innovation plays an ever increasing part in our society, but unfortunately we are often not equipped enough to facilitate idea generation. 'The Idea Agent' addresses this problem and gives a well structured guidance into the idea process and all of its phases. The book is must for the beginner and a welcome inspiration for the expert, and it does us all a favor by pointing out the importance of structured creativity!”

Michael Thomsen

Managing Director R&D, Interactive Institute and former Managing Director R&D, LEGO Media International