	"Innovation and Creativity are badly served by widely believed propaganda." Innovation and Creativity Links Printable Page

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You might think that on the cutting edge of development, the Internet would be a good source of materials and information about innovation. Sadly that's not the case. There are many poorly resourced start up activities like the one you are reading now. There are a few better resourced but not very innovative projects. There are hundreds (thousands) of people with weak ideas and poor business understanding trying to make a fortune off the back of other people's good ideas. I've searched for good links and found few.

Moreover the links in this area are unstable. In 1997 there were 20+ working links on this page. (Old site www.ate.co.nz) In 2003 only three of those links still functioned. If some of these links are broken, that's about what I'd expect.

These links were revised again in March 2005. Of ten good links in 2003, only two remain viable. Innovation is a highly unstable topic. I notice though several government efforts to focus on innovation. As Open Future Limited opens there are only 14 good links.

CREATIVITY

Creativity, Innovation and Problem Solving. Some Guidelines with Linked Historical Examples. This is a Book Shop, but the "Creativity Page" is useful.

"TRUE Creativity and Innovation consists of. SEEING what other people cannot see."
http://www.quantumbooks.com/Creativity.html - 7 Sep 96

Veech Innovation Network on Ryze:
Somebody told me recently that my own Innovation Network was the only successful public network on the topic of Innovation on the Internet. There are other groups. But I agree that this one seems to be the only active one.

Invention Resources from the MIT

Business Innovation UK
Innovation - the successful exploitation of new ideas - incorporating new technologies, design and best practice is the key business process that enables UK businesses to compete effectively in the global environment.

Innovation Tools
Articles on Creativity, Enterprise Innovation, Creativity, Software/Tools, Success Strategies, Innovation Weblog.

League Alliance
The League is an international consortium serving community colleges. Colleges connect with us by joining the League Alliance and subscribing to iStream.

The Canadian Innovation Centre
Innovation is a catalyst. It can create and sustain wealth. But, innovation is only a catalyst - it is an ingredient in a process.
The Canadian Innovation Centre has a process for guiding innovators and their innovations to the market. We've perfected it over the past 27 years. Our process is based on sound market research and original market insight.

Canada Foundation for Innovation
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, and research hospitals.

Intel Teach to the Future Leadership Forum
What are the most important actions leaders can take to promote effective technology integration in their classrooms? Explore answers to this question in the new Intel Teach to the Future Leadership Forum through research, Web resources, and action plan development.

The Innovation Center
"We change the way foundations, youth organizations, and community groups do business. We don't come in with preset ideas or programs. We nurture small organizations and bring innovative practices to funders and academics."

The Innovation Journal
The Innovation Journal is an independent, peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal devoted to sharing ideas and discussing public sector innovation. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, book reviews, and news.

Innovation and SME Programme
The "Innovation and SME Programme" stands at the cross-roads of the Community's policies on Research, Innovation and SMEs. It promotes Innovation at Community level and encourages SME participation under FP5

IDEO Business Innovation Programme
IDEO helps companies innovate. We design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.

Innovation and Idea Management
Imaginatik is a company specialized in the Innovation process and technology. Our mission is to help companies innovate.

A few Book Links

The Elegant Solution
The best new book on innovation available. By Matthew E May, who held a key advisory role with the University of Toyota for over eight years. Here is the Amazon Link.

Ideas are Free
One of the better books I've read. Amazon have copies that are not expensive.

Leading for Innovation and Organizing for Results
From the Drucker Fopundation. This book has all the big name authors, and the editors have pedigree to burn, but for me it only taks off occasionally. See Amazon here.

Innovation and Creativity Links

A few Book Links