http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog European Innovation Conference • Lund 15-17 Sept 2009 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:44:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=113 As Mats Lindoff entered the stage at 4 PM Sep 17, everyone in the Quadrangle knew that Innovation in Mind was about to end. In the tent that is. For there are a lot of minds in which innovation will live on. It is not a shortage of ideas and ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=109 Nikolaus Franke, who made an excellent speech on user innovation, mentioned a rather interesting thing about Botox. The Botulinum toxin was originally developed for treatment of spasms but around two thirds of the revenues come from use in wrinkle removal. Beauty in mind. http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=106 Today was the first day of the conference. And what a day it was. The quadrangle was packed with people and the line up of speakers did their absolute best not to let anybody down. One that gave an inspiring talk was Sahar Hashemi. Of course she had a good ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=103 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrP55MvJtU http://create2009.europa.eu/ambassadors/profiles/bengt_aake_lundvall.html http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=96 Social media is today a well known phenomena and  through sites like Facebook and MySpace people all over the world can interact openly. If we take Facebook as an example its many users should, according to theory, attract even more users, since a large network increases the odds of interacting ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=87 Is the many really smarter than the few? Is the crowd changing the game? In a recent article published in FastCompany the use of crowdsourcing is discussed. It would seem that a company can be advised to use "the crowd" when it has something to fall back on and avoid ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=83 As often is pointed out and discussed, some of the more important innovations in recent years concerns business models. An industry in which the incumbents have struggled to face the challenges posed by new actors operating on new business models is the music industry. Many of us remember pioneers such ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=80 A big theme during the upcoming conference will be how users innovate and how innovation increasingly takes place across previously closed boundaries. This made me think about the time when Steve Jobs was asked about what type of phone we will be carrying with us in five years. Jobs replied ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=75 The main themes of this conference, and the many exciting topics in the programme, reflect a changing and evolving innovation landscape. Competence and skills are much more widely distributed than before, constituting an important premise for open innovation and user driven innovation. Today, networks and communities provide rich opportunity to ... http://www.innovationinmind.se/mindblog/?p=68