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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Strongest Material Ever Tested
Graphene, praised for its electrical properties, has been proven the strongest known material.
By Katherine Bourzac
Materials scientists have been singing graphene's praises since it was first isolated in 2005. The one-atom-thick sheets of carbon conduct electrons better than silicon and have been made into fast, low-power transistors. Now, for the first time, researchers have measured the intrinsic strength of graphene, and they've confirmed it to be the strongest material ever tested. The finding provides good evidence that graphene transistors could take the heat in future ultrafast microprocessors.

Green is the color of innovation
Published: Sunday, April 6, 2008 - By Dan McLean
Free Press Staff Writer
Entrepreneurs, students, college professors and business leaders will meet at the third annual Invention to Venture conference Friday along Burlington's Lake Champlain waterfront.
The conference, which is part of a national series of workshops designed to encourage entrepreneurship, was organized by the University of Vermont and the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a high-tech business incubator affiliated with UVM.

The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) is a leading-edge technology business incubator. The Center offers selected early-stage businesses a menu of traditional incubator services such as furnished office and laboratory space, business consultation, shared office equipment, administrative support, business education and workshops.

Small Business Notes - Information and Resources for Small Business Owners - Small Business owners are those individuals who are the explorers and pioneers of the business community. They break new ground and find new approaches to challenges. No two days are alike. It takes flexibility, imagination and a sense of fun, but for those of us who love to be where the action is, this is an exciting place to be!
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the world economy. They provide jobs, goods, services and the flow of money that keeps the marketplace alive and well.

Center for Open Innovation
The Center for Open Innovation, a unit of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at UC-Berkeley, conducts scholarly research and engages corporate leadership in three key areas:
Open Innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate innovation. With knowledge now widely distributed, companies cannot rely entirely on their own research, but should acquire inventions or intellectual property from other companies when it advances the business model.
Open Business Models create value by leveraging many more ideas, due to their inclusion of a variety of external concepts, and can also enable greater value capture, by using a key asset, resource, or position not only in the company's own business model but also in other companies' businesses.

knooppunt innovatie: organiseren van vernieuwing
Het knooppunt is een online portal voor iedereen die interesse heeft in innovatie organiseren. Van managers en onderzoekers tot beleidsmakers en opleiders. Het knooppunt wil bijdragen aan innovatie. Door mensen en ideeën bij elkaar te brengen en nieuwe activiteiten te stimuleren. Het knooppunt verbindt mensen, ideeën en ruimten:

Innosight’s consulting and training services help companies create new growth through innovation. Building on the disruptive innovation frameworks developed by our founder, Clayton Christensen, Innosight’s approach and proprietary tools facilitate the discovery of new, high-growth markets and the rapid creation of breakthrough products and services.
Our philosophy is that developing the systematic capability to innovate requires wide-spread learning and the use of proven techniques to more accurately detect successful new growth opportunities. By leveraging our success with numerous organizations, we can transform your business and create a repeatable process that reduces project time, minimizes required investment and increases revenue potential.

Innovate Like Edison - How America's greatest inventor got his ideas to market. FORTUNE Small Business Magazine - By Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott
October 11 2007: 11:48 AM EDT
(FSB Magazine) BOOK EXCERPT -- If you're reading this with the help of an electric light, it's worth pausing to remember that it was Edison's remarkable innovation that made it possible. Edison's landmark success with the incandescent light bulb and his development of an entirely new system for distributing and monitoring electric power changed the world forever. It is fitting that the light bulb is now a universal metaphor for a bright idea.
Edison didn't just invent the incandescent light, he envisioned and created a system for lighting the entire world. His systems included the means to fund, produce, distribute, monitor, market, and continuously improve his inventions. He did the same with the phonograph and moving pictures, launching the modern entertainment industry.
Edison began all his innovation efforts by asking himself these questions: "What needs do people have that I can fulfill? What trend or trends are present here? What opportunities do they present? What are the current gaps in the marketplace? What is the insight that can lead me to create greater value in this segment? How can I leverage what I know about this category or industry that makes sense for my laboratory and my brand name? How can I test the efficacy of my idea?"

2007 Young Innovators Under 35
Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.

Anne-Marie Rakhorst presenteert boek over duurzaam ontwikkelen in hotel Des Indes
Handen uit de mouwen, durf te innoveren!
Den Haag, 24 september 2007 - Op 24 september was Hotel des Indes in Den Haag het toneel voor de presentatie van het boek ‘Duurzaam ontwikkelen… een wereldkans,’ van ondernemer Anne-Marie Rakhorst. Het eerste exemplaar is overhandigd aan Yvonne Timmerman-Buck, voorzitter van de Eerste Kamer. Zij verving Minister President Jan-Peter Balkenende die per brief liet weten dat hij de boodschap van het boek van harte steunt en het boek ziet als een praktisch en inspirerend middel op weg naar een duurzame wereld.Overigens kreeg Rakhorst van dagvoorzitter Beau van Erven Dorens de ‘kolenhoed’ opgezet die GroenLinks fractievoorzitter Femke Halsema op Prinsjesdag nog weigerde te dragen. 

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Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
Published: September 4, 2007. Author: Lynda M. Applegate
Mature companies understand that to compete today they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says Harvard Business School professor Lynda M. Applegate, is that one of the forces that threatens established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change.

Tap into What’s NEXT at DEMOfall 07
The Launchpad for Emerging Technology.
Over the past two decades, DEMO has focused on keeping you apprised of the life-changing, groundbreaking innovations that, through very insightful evaluation, we feel merit attention. And to this day, we remain true to our mission. We put every effort into showcasing our best and broadest collection of pioneering products—and this year, everything has come together.
Find out what’s NEXT at DEMOfall 07!
September 24-26, 2007 | Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

De IdeaCompany is ervan overtuigd dat een periodieke frisse blik en creatief denken essentieel zijn voor het succes van een organisatie. Niet alleen om te innoveren, maar ook om de dagelijkse problemen op te lossen.
De IdeaCompany verbaast zich erover dat alleen in de reclamewereld mensen werken die “creative director” op hun visitekaartje hebben staan. En dat alleen de afdeling Communicatie creatieve mensen inhuurt, alsof er in de rest van de organisatie geen originele ideeën nodig zijn.
De IdeaCompany beseft dat niet iedereen altijd creatief denkt en dat de één nu eenmaal creatiever is dan de ander, door training of aanleg.

HBS Working Knowledge is a forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking and the opportunity to both influence and use these concepts before they enter mainstream management practice.
Every day, HBSWK features new work from among the more than 200 HBS faculty at the forefront of their diverse fields of expertise, providing a valuable source of inspiration for executives, entrepreneurs, and managers seeking to keep their organizations at the leading edge of innovation and change. Harvard Business School has a long tradition of practice-oriented research and teaching that has a profound and far-reaching impact on business and management education world wide.

Het Innovatie Platform Noord-Nederland (IPNN) wil een basis zijn voor krachtige en positieve groei in de ontwikkeling van onze samenleving. Wie nadenkt over de wereld in de deze eeuw, zal een beroep moeten doen op flink wat creativiteit, durf en fantasie. Het Innovatie Platform Noord-Nederland neemt die uitdaging aan. Stel u een virtuele wereld voor waar kunstenaars en erfgoed beheerders hun creaties, kunstuitingen, historische objecten, acties, abonnementen, toegangsbewijzen etc. wereldwijd kunnen aanbieden zonder dat ze hier een eigen Website of duur reclamebureau voor nodig hebben. Stel u een virtuele wereld voor waar kunstenaars en erfgoed beheerders direct interactief kunnen communiceren met kunstliefhebbers, kenners en afnemers terwijl op beide locaties tegelijkertijd het kunstvoorwerp virtueel aanwezig is. Stel u een wereld voor waar galerieën, expositieruimten, musea, atriums in bedrijven etc. met grote soms kamerbrede platte LCD schermen worden uitgerust waar om het uur, dag, week, maand automatisch een nieuw kunst- en of cultuurobject 2 of 3D gepresenteerd wordt.

Online tools that will make it easy for you to innovate and create new products, services and businesses.
The Internet has become a powerful resource for any innovator, and there are a variety of online tools available to help you with various stages of the innovation process. Opportunity Identification: For discovering opportunities to innovate and for finding areas of need and untapped demand, use the following websites: Read on....