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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. Proximie , based in London, develops remote surgery technology using augmented reality. The company has raised over £37 m in equity finance so far, across three funding rounds, and has been awarded grants from Innovate UK.

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Five Benefits of a Diverse Innovation Team

IdeaScale

Diversity and inclusion are good ideas on many levels, but they can also drive your innovation strategy. Here’s why a diverse innovation team leads to better products. Nikon is a crown jewel of Japanese engineering and imaging technology, and yet a lack of diversity resulted in a camera Japanese people couldn’t use.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. The reliance on deeper insights, more data, greater communications is changing the way we undertake innovation. A virtuous loop.

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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

Yet2

The Innovation & Strategy Conference , held November 14 th in the hip-while-retro Innovation and Design Building in the Seaport area of Boston, offered attendees insights to corporate innovation from a wide variety of perspectives. Innovation groups need to show the rest of company that they are making progress.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

In the UN’s first ever assessment of water security in Africa, around half a billion people are in areas designated “ water insecure.” . Pull strategies are originated by people on the ground–often innovators–who are responding to the struggles of everyday people experiencing specific struggles. million people since 2009.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As innovation leaders and teams we are tasked to enable our organizations to innovate at scale. Essentially, that means driving innovation in predictable, reliable and efficient ways- doing it again and again, rather than being a one-day fly. Yet 90% of executives are unhappy with their innovation performance.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. The rise of digital technologies poses many challenges and opportunities for ethnographic research. Can you describe how your research process was structured for this writing effort? I think Second Life already has.