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Learning to Play - and Playing to Learn in Innovation

Play is a serious thing these days. Even the largest and most mature organizations are looking to enhance their innovation approaches...

What will the Future of Learning for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship look like?

In this online session, we will share our learnings about teaching & coaching creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in the future:...

Learning to manage innovation - a glimpse into the future

Podcast with John Bessant as part of the EU funded VISION project. Listen to the podcast here.

Values-Based Business Model Innovation for the SDGs in the lab of tomorrow

This virtual fireside chat is about values-based business model innovation at the lab of tomorrow (lot). The lot enables company...

Reinventing web search for sustainability or how Ecosia fights climate change with tree planting

In this session with Christian Kroll, the founder and CEO of Ecosia, talks about the world’s largest not-for-profit search engine, about...

What can innovation professionals learn from values-based stakeholder management?

Business is all about purpose, and stakeholder theory is not about trading off different stakeholder interests against one another, but...

‘Breaking the virtual ice’: Creating human interactions using an online game

Do you have to organise another online team and you want to make it different? Are you asking yourself about how to build virtual trust...

I.D.E.A.S.: Futuristic Thinking, or how to develop new ventures

Session on the VISION project at the virtual ISPIM Innovation Conference (7-10 June 2020). Researchers demonstrate the I.D.E.A.S. model...

SMEthod: How to tackle the structural barriers to innovation support

Public innovation support actors face a set of barriers in offering their services that lead to a mismatch in support and therefore...

The use of remote games to foster innovation

As the English clergyman William Pollard (1828-1893) already said: “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is...

Remote games for team development

Being part of a locally distributed team, the circumstances during the Corona crisis are quite challenging. Nevertheless, this situation...

SMEthod - Better SMEs for Better Innovation

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe's economy. They represent 99% of all businesses in the EU. In fact,...

SMEthod Segmentation Methodology and Decision Support Tool

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe's economy. So how can SMEs become more innovative and stay ahead of...

Supporting SMEs for Innovation in Times of Crisis

Session on the SMEthod project at the virtual ISPIM Innovation Conference (7-10 June 2020). Insights on Implementing Innovation in SMEs:...

Using Innovation Games for Teaching and Coaching innovation by John Bessant

Watch any child at play and you’ll get a crash course reminder of the power of games as a way of learning. Structured play helps in many...

Carolyn Downs: How to Become an Innovative Company?

This podcast with Carolyn Downs is featured on https://knowco.net/category/podcast/. Carolyn is involved in the SMEthod project.

Values-Based Innovation Management: Concepts, Methods and Applications

The Webinar introduces the basic concepts, exemplary methods and practical applications of values-based innovation management. We show ...