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(Click the image to listen to the podcast) One of the few good things to come out of the current pandemic crisis has been the steady flow...

This formed part of my keynote session with Tim Minshall at the R&D Management conference last week. Their title was 'Innovation in an...

There’s a lot to like about Berlin - a city swollen with culture (anywhere that devotes a whole island to museums and galleries must...

An interview with Henry Rose Lee Variety is the spice of life - and diversity is the driver of innovation. There’s a great deal of...

There’s a wonderful computer game, originally developed back in the 1980s called ‘Elite’ – you can still find versions of it today. It...

‘With every pair of hands you get a free brain!’ This flash of the blindingly obvious underpins the growing awareness in organizations of...

(you can find the podcast version of this post here...) Metacognition. Sounds a good word and it's certainly an important one. The...

For many years Gavin McClafferty was Innovation Manager with Subsea 7, a major player in the highly specialised world of deep-sea...

An interview with Abi Taylor, Innovation manager with ELRHA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund https://lnkd.in/eyQNbBG (Podcast version here:...

Platforms are not a new idea. Over a hundred years ago Messrs Sears and Roebuck pioneered a business to enable remote shopping, using...

Or rather, the old site but looking very different. We hope you like the new layout and especially that you find the way we've tried to...

Imagine the scene. Crowds looking up, craning their necks to see against the blinding sunlight glistening in the spray. The roar of...

Next time it starts to rain and you reach for your folding umbrella spare a thought for Slawa Duldig. She was the Viennese sculptress...

The kitchen blender has a lot to answer for.  These days there are plenty of experiments with what you can cram into the jug and then...

Where do innovations come from? Research suggest that there are many different sources, some working to create opportunities (‘knowledge...

Connect the dots –  an interview with Catharina van Delden, founder and CEO of Innosabi talking about collaborative ecosystems Podcast...

I don’t know about you but I’m spending a lot of time listening these days.  As my physical room to move about contracts (thanks to...

Building an open innovation ecosystem – an interview with Christoph Krois, Open Innovation Manager at Siemens in which he talks about the...

Another innovation song…

Natalie Turner is a writer, speaker, innovation consultant and coach. In this interview we explore some of the core themes in her book...