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Bibliography
Innovation and Creativity
Books, Articles, Web Sites & Seminars
Compiled by PDI Global Intelligence Team
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Seminars
Websites
1. Practical Seminars & Hands-On Workshops
Strategy, Risk
Management, Negotiation & Leadership
2. Innovation Case Studies
From Black Oil to Green Future with MDI Air car
A car that runs on compressed air
Roger Harrabin (BBC): Five-seat concept car runs on air
Jim Ostroff (Yahoo Finance): Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?
A car that runs 200 miles on compressed air.
Air Car by Guy Negre on CNN
Air Car Compressed Air Vehicle by Guy Negre - CNN Glen Beck
France's Moteur Développement International engineered two economical and virtually
pollution-free cars (The OneCAT and MiniCAT) that run on 4500 psi compressed air stored in
90m3 carbon-fibre tanks built into the chassis. The light-weight fibreglass-tubular body is
the product of aerospace technology. The engine injection is similar to combustion engines
with decompressed air pushing the pistons to create movement. The air conditioning system
makes use of the expelled zero-degree cold clean air. A quiet and ultralight electric system
uses a small radio signal. No keys: car reads an access card from user pocket. Instead of
speed gauges, a small computer displays the speed and engine revolutions and offers
countless connections options (internet, GPS navigation, GSM phone, traffic and emergency
tracking, voice recognition). The oil change is extended to 50,000 km due to the absence of
both combustion and pollution. A new seatbelt system anchors both sides of the belt to car
floor.
Car cost: $10,000. Refills: $2 in 3 minutes from a service-station compressor or four hours
with a small onboard electrical compressor.
Two versions: (1) Urban driving: single-energy compressed air engines delivering up to 110
km/h, for up to 8 hours of circulation or up to 300 km, twice that of most electric cars;
(2) Long drives: twin-energy compressed air plus liquid fuel burner that heats the air to
increase the pressure on pistons propelling the car to 200 km/h for up to 800 km.
Nurturing a Vibrant Culture to Drive Innovation
Courtesy of M.I.T.
Terri Kelly, President & CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates recently spoke at MIT Sloan
about the unique company culture they have cultivated. Gore encourages belief
in the individual, organization around small teams, recognition that people are
in the same boat, and that all must "take the long view." Bill Gore
"hated policy manuals and bureaucratic ways of telling the organization
what to do," says Kelly. In practice, this means, among other things, that
employees are equals (associates) who decide what projects to work on based on
"their passion," says Kelly. Watch the video
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2. Innovation and Creativity: Web References
- Psychology-based Research on Engineering Innovation: State of the Art and Future Needs, Kris Wood & Jon Cagan
NSF CMMI Sponsored Workshop Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation
- The Prevalence of User Innovation and Free Innovation Transfers: Implications for Statistical Indicators and Innovation Policy
Courtesy of M.I.T.
In this working paper, Professor Eric von Hippel takes a look at how statistical
indicators have not kept pace with innovation research. "Today, it is well
understood that many industrial and consumer products are developed by users,
and that many innovations developed at private cost are freely shared. New
statistical indicators will empower policymakers to take advantage of the
latest research findings in their innovation policy making, and will enable
them to benefit from improved measurement of resulting policy impacts.
Read more
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GENI: Catalyzing Network Research
Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking, NSF
Workshop Report by Larry Peterson, Princeton University
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Measuring Eco-Innovation
Making Europe more competitive and sustainable
- World Innovation Forum, Sponsored by M.I.T.
Join us in New York City May 5-6 for the World Innovation Forum.
Speakers include Clayton Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan,
Fred Krupp, Dan Ariely, CK Prahalad, and Paul Saffo.
Read more
- Clean-Slate Internet Reinvention Initiative
Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking, NSF Workshop Report
- The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Workshop
Presented NASA Southeeast regional technology transfer conference.
Contributors: NASA, Georgia SBDC Network,
Georgia Institute of Technology, South Carolina Technology Aliance,
Needle & Rosenberg and SBTDC
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Transferring Innovation Across Groups in Organizations: Evidence from the Field and the
Laboratory
National Science Foundation Innovation and Discovery
Workshop led by Linda Argote, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
- Online Learning Portal from The Open
University and the BBC
This learning portal features the history of
some of the greatest discoveries and innovations of all
times in mathematics, biology, medicine, computer sciences
and astronomy, among others.
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