by Drew Boyd | Dec 15, 2014 | Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Innovation Method, The Economist, The Wheel
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 15, 2014 | Design Thinking, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Ideation, Innovation Sighting, Jared Diamond
Innovation is anything that is new, useful, and surprising. “Surprising” means that the idea makes you slap your forehead and say, “Gee, why didn’t I think of that?” Here’s a great example. “Researchers at the MIT Media...
by Erica Gage | Apr 2, 2012 | Academic Focus, Evaluation Ideas, Google, Innovation Sighting, The Economist
Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation by Dr. James Utterback is an innovation classic. It describes how technologies and industries in the past have evolved over time, usually resulting in the large, established firm losing out to the smaller startups. Looking...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 24, 2011 | Academic Focus, Advertising Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Jared Diamond, Pinterest, The Economist
This month’s Academic Focus features Professor John Hauser and the highly-regarded team at MIT. Perhaps no other university in the world stands for innovation as much as this one. MIT is an innovation powerhouse because of the way the faculty looks at...
