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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Today when some people talk about innovation they mean inventing or adopting new technology. Others define innovation as entrepreneurship – starting a new business. Outside the capitalist loop, we have the proponents of social innovation – developing new things which have a demonstrable social value.

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Open innovation for social change?—?OECD’s global challenge

Be-novative

OECD’s global challenge Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more?—?including including social good. Why crowdsource for social change? Through the power of crowdsourcing, 255 ideas were shared by collaborators from 20 countries.