efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       13 November 2003 The Next Big Thing - or many Next Big Things? In BusinessWeek (edition 17-November) there is an interesting column from Samuel Palmisano about "How the US can keep its innovation going". He says: "Innovation is occuring within a global - not national ecosystem. It has multiple points of intersection amongst business, government and academia, and in industries ranging from biotechnology to transportation, energy, telecommunications, and information technology, and in the public sector. That is why there is not going to be a single Next Big Thing. There will be many" Remarkable is his comment later in the column, where he asked a very valid question (but fails to answer it) "How do we define and measure innovation in ways that capture the realities of a new century?" - will understanding the role of global networks and innovation potential of these networks give insight..?   This happened at 3:26:07 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. November 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30             Sep   Dec Blog categories: (All) innovation Social Networks Blogging Blogroll: [Macro error: Could not open the url, "http://www.efios.com/blog/gems/blogroll.opml", because it could not be converted to an outline.] 25 most recent: Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ... NGMTI communities of practice Communities and change agents Informal learning and communities CITSA 2005 - Information Systems Analysis and I-KN... PhD Seminar in Copenhagen Business School Community of Practice in technology platforms The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Techno... Workflow learning Using virtual communities in marketing APQC's blog on KM and Communities of Practice