First of all I would like to thank Incubate for inviting Andrew Keen to the Incubate Innovation Lecture. Andrew Keen gave a clear lecture about his vision on Internet issues. He raised some legitimate questions about the future of western art in a civilization were nobody pays for an artwork. He states that the digital [...]

I’m from an era where the parents taught us to be modest: What you do is only good enough when others notice and compliment you and of course tell others about it.
Then you could conclude that expressing yourself on the internet is something for younger people or not done?
I doubt that! It’s more or less, [...]

June 24, the first edition of the Co-creation Event will take place at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. RedesignMe initiates this event in cooperation with Syntens and lot of co-creation facilitators from Eindhoven. This event is aimed at how you can successfully apply customer directed innovation for a specific target group. This [...]

From Business Model Design and Innovation:
Interesting interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails about the music industry, notably about business model innovation (hat tip to Peter Froberg of Freemium.eu). What an amazing industry to innovate in these days!

This week, we stumbled across two interesting sources on technical and mobile innovations that originated in the developing world. The Tecno Brega music scene in Brazil, which we wrote about earlier, is a similar example. It strikes us that the best technical and social innovations come forward out of the needs that exist in these [...]

Alex Osterwalder is currently writing the book “Business Model Generation“. On his site, he writes about a section of the book called ideation: ‘the art of generating innovative business model ideas’.
“While working on this section I realized that ideas were not necessarily the problem. They exist in abundance within a company or an industry. [...]