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Innovation Dipstick: Innovation Festival 8 March 2010

This is the results of the Innovation Dipstick questionnaire completed by Innovation Festival delegates on 8 March 2010 in Stellenbosch.
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Any queries, feedback or comments on Innovation Festival presentations

Dear Innovation Festival delegates,
Please ask any questions to any of the speakers at the Innovation Festival. Your feedback and comments are also welcome. Do you have any suggestions?

Saine | March 8th, 2010 | Continued

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Open versus closed Innovation – Maggie Fikkert

Open innovation describes a process whereby organisations pursue externally generated knowledge and ideas and bring it into the business to solve problems or leverage opportunities. Furthermore organisations also allow internally generated knowledge and ideas to flow outwards. Evidently this is directly in contrast to the traditional methods of innovation where technological knowledge and ideas are [...]

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The SAINe presentation by Audrey Verhaeghe

This presentation was presented by Audrey Verhaeghe, the SAINe steering committee chairman and CEO of RIIS, on 9 March 2010 at the Innovation Festival at Spier Wine Estate. Any comments are welcome.
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Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition 2010 by Ismail Dhorat

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The city of Cape Town is currently running a competition for entrepreneurs in Biotechnology, Telecom and Media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Clean Technology, Healthcare and Social Entrepreneurship. The winner of the Cape Town competition will also get a chance to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship competition in Barcelona in June.
The city of [...]

March 4th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Questionnaire to Engineers: The Vibration and Research Testing Centre (VRTC) at UKZN

Dear Scientific Community of Innovators and Entrepreneurs
The Innovation Hub received the attached questionnaire from The Vibration and Research Testing Center (VRTC) at UKZN. As many of you have Engineering backgrounds and an interest in the field I thought your perusal of the documents and contributions would be of interest to you as well as of [...]

March 3rd, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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COFISA BOOK: Enhancing Innovation in South Africa – The COFISA Experience

The COFISA Book was launched on 18 February 2010 at the COFISA CLOSING CONFERENCE by the SA National Coordinator, Mrs Nirvashnee Seetal.
INTRODUCTION
Globalisation makes countries and economies increasingly competitive and offers considerable opportunities for those who can seize what globalisation makes available. Globalisation increases the mobility of goods, money, capital, people, ideas, cultures and values across [...]

February 19th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Ten lessons overview by Neil Jacobsohn

Ten lessons from the Future!
In our first article we made the point that life is changing faster and more profoundly than at any other time in history. We live with radical change every day.
So how do managers cope in a world that is increasingly chaotic?
It’s all about understanding what the future is likely to [...]

February 17th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Developers Conference 10 March 2010

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February 15th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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How do you measure success? – Greg Fainberg

Probably one of the most daunting subjects when it comes to innovation is “how do you measure success?” The old management adage applies here of course, You can’t manage what you can’t measure. In my experiences and interactions with various groups both from private and public institutions I find that alot of lip service is [...]

February 9th, 2010 | Saine | 3 comments | Continued
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THE NETWORK AGE – Excerpt from Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud

THE NETWORK AGE
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Preface
What we are experiencing today is fundamental change. The industrial age is in its death throes, making way for the unfolding of the network age. This is akin to when the Industrial Revolution overwhelmed the agrarian age. During that time, people moved from farms to cities. Clock watching replaced working to the [...]

February 5th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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“The natural Innovation Cycle” by Audrey Verhaeghe

Audrey’s comment on Fred de Villiers’s innovation book discussion: ‘My favourite innovation tape that I listened to is the “Creative Fire” of Clarissa Pincola-Estes. She kindles anyone’s creative fire through the stories that she tells. She motivates and teaches at the same time. Based on this book I developed a model called the “The natural [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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What is your favourite innovation related book? – Fred de Villiers

Books on Innovation are plentiful and it is hard to find the real gems.

It would be great if we can all nominate a few that has meant a great deal to us.
What is your favourite innovation book? Why do you say so?
At the moment I am reading “A whack on the side of the head” [...]

January 25th, 2010 | Saine | 7 comments | Continued
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INVITE: COFISA Closing Conference: Moving Innovation into the Future – with lessons learned from the past

The objectives of COFISA’s closing conference are to disseminate the results and outcomes of COFISA as well as to share the experiences gained between 2006 and 2010. This will be an opportunity for partners and participants from the various Provinces and countries to network and capitalise on their work within the different themes. This conference [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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What is blocking SA organisations’ innovation potential? – Henra Mayer

The concept of innovation is not new in South Africa, yet very few organisations can pride themselves as overwhelmingly successful in this regard. I have come across various viewpoints on the topic, be it in the boardroom or by means of an internet search, about why innovation fails. In an article by Project Leaders International [...]

January 11th, 2010 | Saine | 15 comments | Continued