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Big Ideas
Announcing Innovation Discovery for Government: Innovative policy ideas fast!
Innovation Discovery for Government: is a new governmental service for creating better policy ideas at a lower cost to taxpayers through innovation. Only available from 2thinknow.
SMH: Artists tapped to renew cities’ ailing CBDs?
From Chris Zappone at the Age newspaper (republished Sydney Morning Herald): "Artists tapped to renew cities' ailing CBDs?".Examples used are recent movements to renew steel / manufacturing centres Newcastle & Geelong using arts segment.
Innovation Economy in Budapest, Hungary: Feature from index.Hu
Innovation in Budapest: Full text of 2ThinkNow interview with Urban Watch, Hungary. This is the English answers transcript. The Hungarian final version (edited/translated) article appeared on the popular Hungarian site Index.hu, as well as Hungarian urban planning sites.
Meeting planners: Innovation Speaker, Events & Courses
2ThinkNow provide the Innovation Course, Local Innovation Forum event and an innovation speaker resource to meeting planners & organizers for events in USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Resurrecting Athens and the Greek Economy with Innovation
Here's some 2ThinkNow thoughts from our Executive Director, Christopher Hire, in a newspaper interview with Greek daily newspaper, To Vima. "The newly elected mayor of Athens - and former Ombudsman - professor, Yorgos Kaminis, posted the article in his Facebook profile and there were many who wrote positive comments."
Innovation Cities™ Index 2023
The Innovation Cities™ Program is an evidence-based city development program, offering full city benchmarking data, segment case studies and other resources.
Giving you the innovation tools to change performance
Innovation Tools -- the right innovation tools for the job -- are the difference between successful and failing change. 2ThinkNow are opening the doors to our Innovation Technology, with our new website updates and launches sharing more innovation resources for managing the innovation process in your sector.
A global city report: a new concept in urban research, ...
This morning, in Melbourne, Australia a new concept in urban research a global city report, is being launched with a new website to take new ideas in urban planning and city management globally.
Why How you Measure Data Matters…
Data granularity matters, the process of collecting data and assessing its value to the innovation process is often overlooked. Some valuable thoughts on collecting data for innovation metrics, from 2ThinkNow innovation analysts.
Australian Recommendations: Excerpt from Innovation Cities Analysis Report
2ThinkNow are releasing an excerpt of the Innovation Cities Analysis Report, in the context of further analysis of paths to success for Australian innovation policy.
Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report
The Innovation Cities™ Analysis Report by 2ThinkNow analyses cities global conditions, identifies current and predicted future conditions to 2025, and provides the leading framework to measure and improve performance during this time.
Funding Start-Ups: An Innovative Proposal
What if we could fund start-ups and create a culture of innovation. At very little cost directly, and with shared risk? Should we? Can we? What if the tax system could create an innovation economy at a low risk?
Federal Government Public Sphere, Melbourne, 2009 Training Notes
These are participant notes from the Public Sphere in Melbourne with thanks to Donna Benjamin and Christopher Hire (Exec Dir, 2thinknow). The Public Sphere event was organized by Senator Kate Lundy. The context of the one day event was the future development of the I.T. and creative industries in Australia.
Municipal World Cities & Culture Issue
What makes a city innovative? How, where & why does innovation in cities work - a neat summary all in one feature article.
Innovation Cities Index Interview on ABC Radio Australia
Listen to this ABC Radio Australia Breakfast Club interview, available as MP3 podcast explaining today's top 75 Innovation Cities Index City rankings - released today.
2ThinkNow Innovation Models: developed 2005-2009
Since 2005, 2ThinkNow have developed (and now published a number) of original Innovation Models. 2ThinkNow innovation models provide structure & logic to change, across industries, professional silos, business functions, sectors and geography.
SMH: Innovation in Manufacturing
Our Executive Director, Christopher Hire, was quoted in the Fairfax newspapers commenting on maintaining automobile manufacturing in Australia, in support of local manufacturing as part of the economic mix of cities.
Fast Company: Innovation As Positive Change
Is innovation about more than technology? Is there a vision beyond creativity of geeks - do we need to broaden innovation? The founding discussion of 2ThinkNow showed up in Fast Company in USA.