Innovation, Tech transfer, blogs...

We keep looking for better ways to do tech transfer out of the university labs...  Should read the Harvard Business Review article mentioned by Mathemagenic...

Blogs and innovation Interview: Maish - elearningpost [Learning Circuits Blog] Maish: I guess the aspect of highlighting trends is built into the fabric of blogs. Let me explain. There is this wonderful article in Harvard Business Review titled "Building an Innovation Factory" by Andrew Hargadon and Rob Sutton (June-July 2000). This article describes the innovation process as analyzed in many industries: 1) Constantly Capture ideas 2) Keep these alive 3) Explore new uses for them 4) Build prototypes to test them out These four steps highlight the implicit relationship between a blog and its authors/readers. From my experience, a blog captures ideas and keeps it alive (steps 1 & 2). But the blog also gives the authors/readers something back--a fertile ground to explore new uses and opportunities to build and experiment with prototypes.

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Nice design...

spend some time here and learn a few things.

Jennett.radio the "Radio randomizer network"  (translation:  a Radio webring)  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

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Follow the buzz...

Questions About Google Acquisition. People who follow Weblogs are curious about what Google, the leading search engine, expects to gain from its recent purchase of Pyra Labs. By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times: Technology]

..."Follow Weblogs and you follow the buzz," said Jeff Jarvis, president of Advance.net, which is the Internet unit of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications, and was an investor in Pyra.

I like this observation.  Weblog technology does make it easier to determine which topics are gaining "traction" and which are not.  The analysis offered by a variety of metablog sites and tools are following ground covered by content analysis methodology created decades ago.  If opinion leaders and other leaders follow the buzz on a "real time" basis, perhaps some of the lags in policy decisions will disappear.

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