by Drew Boyd | May 2, 2011 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Clusters, Innovation Method
Companies that struggle with innovation often make up for it by adding features to existing products. They succumb to “feature creep” – the gradual and continuous addition of features and functions though nothing is truly new. While it may look...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 21, 2011 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Inside the Box Innovation, Multiplication, The Economist
The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto will host the Business Design Challenge from March 25-26, 2011. Teams of graduate students from business and design schools in the US and Canada will work to solve a case study in the area of health and...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 3, 2011 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The Live Well Collaborative at the University of Cincinnati is an academic-industry innovation incubator for regionally, nationally and internationally prominent firms. The focus of LWC is the aging population. Firms partner with UC to address product or service needs...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 13, 2010 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The convergence of three worlds…commercial, technical, and design…creates the optimal conditions for innovation. Now a new university in Finland has done just that. Aalto University is a newly created university from the merger of the Helsinki School of...
by Drew Boyd | May 31, 2010 | Creative Valentines Day, Innovation Method
Many products are invented accidentally. Serendipity led to the microwave oven, corn flakes, Teflon®, penicillin, fireworks, Viagra®, chocolate chip cookies, and the most famous of all accidents…the Post-it® note. The problem with serendipity is it’s not...
