Tag Archives: innovation

Framing Creativity. User-driven Innovation in Changing Contexts

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

This article outlines a way of understanding and modelling how it is possible to design for creative processes. The processes in question involve user-driven didactic design in a Danish project for developing e-learning designs to be used at small and … Continue reading →

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Territorial Innovation Models – A critical survey of the international literature

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

This  paper  provides  a  critical  review  of  the  international  literature  on  Territorial  Innovation Models  (Industrial Districts, Milieux  Innovateurs, New Industrial Spaces, Local Production Systems, etc.). The review  is organized  in two steps. First, the main features of each of these … Continue reading →

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Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership: Leveraging Nonlinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Using leadership to generate greater innovation, connectivity, and organizational transformation is crucial for success in this challenging era. The authors present here a new approach to leadership based on findings from complexity science. Integrating real case studies with rigorous research … Continue reading →

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The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they’d already been solved and you didn’t even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage … Continue reading →

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10 Steps for Creating an Open-Innovation Culture

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Open innovation does not entail the creation of a massive business concept. Instead, it is the transformation of an internal culture, and the development of a process to encourage and promote innovation from every available source. Open innovation takes an … Continue reading →

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Test Your Innovation IQ

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Everyone knows that innovation means coming up with the next great idea, right? Actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. Test your ability to separate innovation fact from fiction by answering the following questions true or false: Innovation … Continue reading →

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The educational value of creative disobedience

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

We say we want children to achieve at the highest level—to be the next generation of great scientists and innovators and artists and world leaders—yet the system we’ve put in place makes it nearly impossible for each child to reach … Continue reading →

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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws … Continue reading →

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Pozible – Crowdfunding Creativity

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Pozible is a crowdfunding platform and community for creative projects and ideas. Developed for artists, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, designers, entrepreneurs, inventors, event organisers, software developers and all creative minded people to help make great things possible. Inspired by crowdsourcing, crowdfunding … Continue reading →

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The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Given our combined expertise in the study of business innovation and working within the university setting, we decided to write The Innovative University to share some ideas about what innovation could make possible in higher education. We wanted to … Continue reading →

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