Imaginatik Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.
Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation
Product Development and Management Association Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services
Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering" Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "Idea Management could rescue knowledge management from oblivion" by BaseX analyst Jon Spira
Corporate Innovation Blog A daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered.
InnovationTools A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
C. W. Prather & Associates A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere.
Innovation Convergence 2004 Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that supports ideas and innovation. Features call for speakers, registration and venue information. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
The Innovation Resource Consulting Group Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen.
Creative Advantage Offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development.
Directives Enterprises Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services.
IdeaFlow Creativity and Innovation blog offers white papers and links to related sites.
CREATEProject web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
InnovateEurope 2005 Provides information on this innovation conference to be held in London, England. Offers list of speakers, quotes, testimonials, and contacts.
BRINQ - Innovation & Toys from the Brink of the World Seeks to enable affordable local invention of toys in the developing world and deploys a business system to propagate the most innovative creations to the rest of a developing market and for licensing back in the developed world.