“Soft innovation: economics, product aesthetics, and the creative industries” by Paul Stoneman

Similar to the NESTA report of Miles & Green (2008), Paul Stoneman developed his own view of innovation in the creative industries sector. Also first published a NESTA-Report in 2009 with the same topic, in 2010 he published the book “Soft innovation: economics, product aesthetics, and the creative industries”. Continue reading →

CfP “Stage gate and beyond: New approaches to managing product/service development and in particular highly innovative projects”

A new call for a special isse for Creativity and Innovation Management. The call is about new insights or approaches of innovation processes. Deadline is June, 1st.

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CfP Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation in “Retro” Industries

The European Journal of Innovation Management is planning a special issue to the topic of innovation in industries that formally rely on mixed innovations. Continue reading →

The hidden innovation in low innovation sectors

According to the topic of this blog, innovation exist in various ways that can not always be captured with the existing measures official statistics use. The same is true for sectors that were seen as “traditional”, like the oil industry.

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16th Annual Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Conference

I would draw the attention to the announcement of the 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Conference. This year the conference will take place at my home University in Potsdam. This conference addresses practical and scientific presentations in two sepparate tracks. The conference theme will be “Creativity and Entrepreneurship”.

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CfP and Pre-Announcment of the Quo Vadis Developer Conference

The Quo Vadis is Germany’s biggest game developer conference. The Who-is-Who of Germany’s and foreign developer studios and publisher are going to meet again from 24.-26. April in Berlin. Continue reading →

THESEUS Congress 2012

The THESEUS Program is Germanys largest IT project with partners from business and academia. In the middle of February the congress in Berlin will present current results of the research project.

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