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.
How does New York rank for innovation & ideas? Here is a recent piece (in Francais) in Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper, about New York's Museum of Contemporary Art approach to sparking creative ideas. 2ThinkNow innovation Cities Index is used for comparison.
2ThinkNow Innovation Projects in 2009 to 2010. Commercial Innovation Programs for creating innovation in business, cities and government. More to come.
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.
Usable Insight (UI) is what 2ThinkNow call actionable innovation that you can implement leading to economic benefit. There is no point generating ideas that you can't implement - and this is integrated in 2thinknow.
The original 2007 Innovation analysis of Innovation Cities, that called for a redefintion of an arts-centric, local economic culture - and warned of the dangers of the current path (prior to the GFC).
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.