Are you like me - love the Harvard Business Review but too expensive to keep up the subscription? 

One of our USA university students (we do a fully online undergraduate course in Creativity and Innovation) alerted me to the December 09 feature on Innovation. Well worth reading the long extracts given and then only a small cost if you want the full article.

so thought I would share with you... do you read anything interesting lately??

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The gap -- the space between where we are and where we need to be. The gap -- where the energizing opportunities lie. The gap -- where innovative people, teams, and organizations live. The gap -- where applied creativity is the critical difference between success and failure.

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The 8th annual CREA Conference will offer a new mix of people, programmes, and ideas. CREA is dedicated to organisations and people who are looking for innovation and solutions; who believe that ideas are better than words; that doing things is more effective than talking; that learning new methods and techniques is more productive than listening to speeches; that creativity is the only way to produce innovation professionally and personally.

Programmes are offered in English, Italian and French

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"The innovation industry took a hit this year, as executives dialed back on initiatives—and paid the price". The following article by Michael Arndt, in businessweek, explores the year in innovation and some encouraging trends that emerged.

In 2009 the world was no longer flat; much of it was flat broke. Deflated by slumping sales and income, companies roundly did what innovation consultants say they never should—they cut spending on research and development. The U.S.

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One of today's Tweets from Anthill Magazine featured a short article on creativity and innovation by our acquaintance Roger La Salle, former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC).  

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As many will know I have had the pleaseure of lecturing on Creativity & Innovation as part of Swinburne University's Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation program since 2000, initiallyin Israel and in the last six years in Melbourne as well.  As the end of the year approaches it is a always a time for reflection on what has been accomplished and the message from Alex Maritz below was a great one to receive.

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I am reading my way through the essay assignments on Creativity & Innovation submitted by my Masters students, and although I am only part way through the pile, I am again really enjoying the insights many of them have made.  The assignment was to look at the broad area of creativity and innovation, how these are defined, how they might be achieved, and then relate this to your own context.  As the definitions are being explored I am seeing nice variation, as I would expect, depending on what they have been reading.  While most of the papers so far address the questi

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