January 2008
18: Innovation Of A Tradition
07: We Hear Them, But Do We Know What They're Saying?

August 2007
01: Farewell from Renee -- but check out the new IdeaFlow blogroll!

May 2007
14: Supernova 2007 blog conversation: It's all about innovation and value

April 2007
26: Innovation Bloggers Virtual Forum cancelled!!!
25: Join us at the first-ever Innovation Bloggers Virtual Forum, Thursday, April 26

March 2007
26: Jack’s Notebook: A Business Novel of ‘Deliberate Creativity’

February 2007
28: Models for crowdsourcing -- now, FLIRT
23: New Chief Innovation Officer course being offered
23: Happy New Year!

December 2006
11: Chuck Frey's new mindmapping software book
08: It's up to CMOs to drive customer co-creation (updated with link)
06: Latest customer co-creation trend -- new ways to reward customers

October 2006
18: Vote on 'Six Core Values of Innovation' by Jeff De Cagna
17: Book review: Innovation as magic in 'Follow The Other Hand'
12: The official IdeaFlow BIF-2 Collaborative Innovation Summit wrap-up!
12: BIF-2 wrap-up: Where do ideas come from? And what's an idea, anyway?
12: BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation by the community, for the community
12: BIF-2 wrap-up: Passion and intent are essential ingredients for innovation
12: BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation = value
05: BIF-2: Innovation Stories
02: 12th Innovation Convergence is in two weeks!

September 2006
27: Three areas of value that result from customer co-creation
21: Guidelines for successful crowdsourcing
15: Renee's back, and so is IdeaFlow!

July 2006
28: Definition of innovation.......!
28: So, where's Renee?!

June 2006
14: Updated version of "What Drives Innovation?" available for download
08: Innovative marketing blogjam over at Fast Company Now!
07: Corante Innovative Marketing Conference starts tomorrow
06: New white paper: 'What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation'
06: TRIZ update: 'It *is* an equation for innovation'
05: New BusinessWeek innovation magazine coming this week
05: What does 'crowdsourcing' mean for business innovation?
01: IBM, Microsoft partnering up with and purchasing small tech companies
01: TRIZ makes BusinessWeek!
01: Sorry for the long absence!

May 2006
02: Introducing the (still) new Corante Innovation Hub!

April 2006
17: Technology's role in innovation

March 2006
03: The key grip: Perhaps the most creative person on a movie set

February 2006
24: The difference between mistakes and failure lies in what comes next
21: Collaborative creativity in action
20: How to create a more innovative business environment
20: More on Douglas Rushkoff
11: Book review: Orchestrating Collaboration At Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
11: Creativity At Work: The 2006 American Creativity Association Conference
09: All boxed up: In the box, out of the box, burn the box, big box!

January 2006
26: Part 4: Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places
26: Part 3: Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places
26: Part 2: Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places
25: Part 1: Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places
24: White paper: "Looking For Ideas In All the Wrong Places"
12: An unlikely example of creativity at work
11: New: Innovation Book Club
03: Call for presenters: Creative Problem Solving Institute 2006

December 2005
23: Dilbert on new products
08: Blue-ocean strategy on the college football field
01: Creative people have more sex

November 2005
30: Web 2.0 and innovation
30: Using mind-mapping for case-based learning
30: Cardboard box makes it to the Toy Hall of Fame
29: Fortune Innovation Forum starts tomorrow -- in person and in blogs too!
29: IdeaFlow joins the new Corante Network
27: Current VC trends
23: What customers need at Thanksgiving
21: Attention shoppers! Innovation in the grocery store
21: Study shows innovation to be the best competitive strategy
18: New innovation website: Innovate Forum
18: TQM, Six Sigma can slow innovation
16: Democrats call for 'Innovation agenda'
10: Bipolar children more creative than other kids
09: Business Week on 'the new young tech entrepreneurs'
09: Richard Florida on 'fast cities': up-and-coming hubs for creative workers
07: Comments on business experimentation process

October 2005
31: Shopping for innovation: how to hire a design firm
27: 'The Creative Mind' -- New Scientist special report
27: Creating a culture of business experimentation
27: Learning from failure
26: Innovation Q&A with Renee Hopkins Callahan
26: 2005 Innovation Challenge blog
26: The best way to frame innovation challenges
25: Wall Street Journal 2005 Technology Innovation Awards
25: Update: New version of Chuck Frey's Mind Map book
25: Reports from Collaborative Innovation Summit
25: 'The Power of Dumb Ideas' -- what's creative about imitation?
24: Innovation "busting out all over"
24: Ten Faces of Innovation
13: New video iPod -- business model innovation
13: Cultural influences on the acceptance of product innovation
03: Finally, innovation comes to beer

September 2005
30: Processes, connections, polarities: Report from Innovation Convergence
29: New: The Daily Innovator blog
29: New e-book on mind mapping strategies
29: Community Voice Mail update -- one more day for Amazon's Nonprofit Innovation Challenge
27: Success vs failure vs risk = innovation burnout
27: Shameless self-promotion dept.!
06: Follow-Up: Helping Katrina evacuees communicate, find loved ones
06: Follow-Up: Take the Innovation Commons values survey
05: Business Week: 'The Creativity Economy'
05: Saved by design?
05: Excerpt: "The Design Of Things To Come"
05: New companies faster and easier to launch
05: Organizational innovation track at American Creativity Assn conference?
05: Building an innovation commons
05: I'm speaking at 'Unlocking Innovation: The 11th Annual Innovation Convergence'
05: PSFK.IF blog
05: Needed: Innovative ways to market an innovative non-profit

August 2005
04: Innovation comes to those with open minds

July 2005
11: Free seminar on 'Building an Innovative Enterprise'
07: Taking creativity back to the workplace
07: Wrapping up CPSI 2005

June 2005
30: Bins, floaters, and speed-binning explained!
30: Is this *really* ethnography?
29: Apprentice mind = just-in-time learning?
29: More creativity vs innovation
29: 2006 CPSI location announced
28: New blog on the future of work
28: Richard Florida is creative too!
28: Richard Florida on Minnesota Public Radio
28: Richard Florida talks about bloggers -- short podcast
27: Creatives must bring everyone along, says Florida
26: CPSI, Day One
26: Mary Catherine Bateson -- creating your life and your work
25: CPSI wiki now up
25: The CPSI hug
25: My new St. Paul 'neighborhood'
25: US losing the broadband innovation race
24: New photos, and looking for wireless in St. Paul....!
22: Microchip inventor Jack Kilby dies
22: New technology: roadcasting
22: 'Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business,' says Business Week
22: The Zen of Creativity
20: Fun with Flickr!
19: Ethno Team preparations begin!
16: Defining creativity and innovation
16: New blog on customer co-creation
14: Technology drives car innovations
14: Top-down disruptive innovations
14: More about apprentice mind
14: Special CPSI coverage on IdeaFlow
09: We are all innovation apprentices
02: Snippet correction

May 2005
31: Snippets from the 2005 Front End of Innovation conference
18: Distributed Creativity -- 'The Do-It-Yourself Economy'
05: The Cost of Not Innovating
04: Recipe for creative "dream teams" revealed

April 2005
25: New von Hippel book, Democratizing Innovation, available for download
13: Free White Paper On 'In-The-Box' Innovation
13: De Bono and 'Serious Creativity'
07: CPSI 2005: Creativity Matters

February 2005
03: Patents: The EU Restarts and IBM Releases
03: Innovation At Play
03: Innovation At Work

January 2005
03: Discounts Available for 2005 Front End of Innovation Conference
03: The Limits of Data Analysis in Predicting Disruption

December 2004
31: Innovation Ethics
31: Blink About 'Blink'
31: Fast Comnpany's Creativity Issue
31: National Innovation Initiative Summit Webcast Available
31: Top 10 Corporate Innovators
30: Innovation Lessons 2004
30: 2004 Innovation Wrap-Up
15: Weigh In On The Top 20 Questions of Blogging
15: National Innovation Initiative Summit Webcast Live Today (Dec. 15)
15: US Has Innovation Edge Over EU
08: Grad Student Restrictions Will Hurt Innovation
08: Innovation Spending To Increase in 2005
08: Innovation Arms Race
08: Test New Hires For Imagination
08: Six Myths ABout Creativity
08: Prototype-As-Design
08: Kurzweil On Merger Of Biology And Technology
08: The Internet and Creativity
06: Innovation A 'New Competency in IT'
06: Innovation and Disruption Still Going Hand In Hand
02: 'How To Be Creative' author up for 'Fast 50'
02: Innovation/job creation gap
02: 'Why Innovation?' presentation available
01: 'Blinks' -- New IdeaFlow feature
01: P&G
01: The Future of Innovation in the US
01: Call The Innovation Chiropractor!

November 2004
30: 'How To Be Creative'
29: Fashionably innovative
29: Copying and Innovation: Cheating, or Brilliance?
09: The conditions of possibility for innovation

October 2004
26: More on innovation drivers
14: What Drives Innovation?
06: More on Innovation and the Presidential Candidates
04: Who Will Be The 'Innovation President'?
04: Business Week's 'Innovation Economy' package

September 2004
25: Execution & Strategy: First, Define the Problem
22: Balancing Innovation, Strategy, and Execution
09: Survey: Linkage Between Trust and Innovation

August 2004
10: Disruptive? Radical? Discontinuous?

July 2004
16: Fundamentals of Innovation - Survey
16: Conference Update: Innovation Convergence
12: Interdisciplinary Patent Analysis

June 2004
24: Report from European Innovation Conference
16: New Innovation 2004 project open to participants
11: BRIDGE Services progress report
11: Commercializing university-developed technologies

May 2004
26: FFE: Discovering Which Jobs Customers Want Done
26: Conference notes from "Managing the Front End"
26: Needed: Sponsors for Global Innovation Challenge for MBAs
21: Innovation process equals new product momentum
21: Innovation Conference Next Week
13: Innovation Policy for 'Exuberant Growth'
05: Open Innovation and the Bridge project come to 'Fast Company'
04: 'Soft' Innovation = Free Prize
03: New Hotel for "Front End of Innovation" Conference

April 2004
22: Innovation on TV
22: More on idea generation
22: BIG Upcoming Conference -- 'Managing The Front End of Innovation'
06: The open innovation frontier

March 2004
25: More on Idea Generation
24: The 'Compendium of Idea Generation Methods' Returns!
15: The Neurobiology of Creativity

February 2004
17: More disruptive Dilbert
17: Innovation joke
17: How 'powerful questions' drive knowledge sharing & knowledge creation
17: Dilbert does disruption!
11: Creative approaches to gaining customer insight
11: Upcoming Conference: Linkage Strategies for Integrating Customer Feedback
09: Which came first, the innovative companies or the diverse culture?
03: Upcoming Conference: Braintrust
03: Apple's innovation game
02: Weak ties make for stronger innovation

January 2004
27: The politics of the creative class
22: Sleep 'reboots' the brain for creativity and problem solving, says study
20: The New and Improved IdeaFlow!
20: Upcoming Conference: Braintrust International
20: The Innovator’s Solution On The Web

December 2003
30: Open Innovation named top book of the year
19: Agreed: Innovation is a process
19: Embracing Innovation As A Religion AND As A Process
19: Innovation Is Hard!
17: Innovation Backlog?
09: Inspirational Tidbits from the NYT

November 2003
26: Selling To Nonconsumers (IS, Chapter 4)
24: The Limits Of Predictability In Innovation
21: Upcoming Conference: Voice of the Customer
21: Brain, Disrupted
19: In Market Segmentation, What Counts Is Needs (IS, Chapter 3)
19: Upcoming Conference: Return On Innovation
19: IS Resources Updated
12: Innovator's Solution Update
07: Upcoming Conference: Voice of the Customer
07: It's All Relative -- IS Chapter Two
04: Innovator's Solution: Not Much of a Solution After All?
03: The Innovator’s Solution On The Web

October 2003
30: Tea and Innovation: Reading The Innovator's Solution
30: Upcoming Conference: www.iirusa.com/returnoninnovationReturn On Innovation
28: John Wolpert, Live From Australia!
25: Fear and Resistance, Again
23: Say 'G'day' To Open Innovation
22: Upcoming Conference: The Human Side of Innovation and Change
22: Logic Puzzles
15: Happy (Late!) Birthday To Us
15: Upcoming Conference: Voice of the Customer
13: Notes From MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference
13: Guide To Innovation Convergence Notes
09: Better Innovation Through Neuroceuticals
08: Link Found Between Creativity and Madness
08: Upcoming Conference: Return on Innovation
07: Mea Culpa!
06: Kudos
03: Innovation Convergence Notes IX: Innovation's In Our DNA
03: Innovation Convergence Notes VIII: Nerd-Herding, Technology Brokering and Trust
03: Innovation Convergence Notes VII: Consumer Pain and New Product Development
03: Innovation Convergence Notes VI: Maps And Codes Matter
03: Creativity and Innovation on the Web
02: Innovation Convergence Notes IV: Trust Us
01: Innovation Convergence Notes III: Sandbox Wisdom, Innovation Bloggers

September 2003
30: Innovation Convergence Notes II: Workplace Innovation Space, Foam Core and Groupblogs
30: Innovation Convergence Notes II:Workplace Innovation Space, Foam Core and Groupblogs
29: Innovation Convergence Notes I: Idea Management, Customers Are Important - But IP Is Not
21: Disruption Panic
19: More On Fear and Innovation
18: Fear, Replacement and Enhancement
18: InnovationConvergence 2003
10: Creativity and Innovation on the Web
09: Innovation In Action At Maytag
09: One Last Creative Act
09: More On Blog Panels...
09: New Fast Company Blog
08: Blogs, Consumers And Innovation
03: Copyright Wars: Either/Or vs Both/And
02: Consumers: An Open Source For Open Source Innovation?
01: Creativity, Innovation and the ‘Copyright Wars’
01: InnovationConvergence 2003

August 2003
29: ‘Newspapers Disrupted’
27: Creativity Assessment and the Innovation Infrastructure
25: Innovation and Trust
20: Our Entrepreneurial Spirits Are High...
20: Style Invitational: Inventive Recombination In Action
18: InnovationConvergence 2003
18: Innovation and Small Worlds: Bridging vs Merging
12: Innovation Aikido: Moving Among Boxes
11: Extreme Innovation
08: Only Connect #2: Technology Brokering and Innovation Networks
06: Of Hot Topics, and Technology Brokering, Too

July 2003
31: The Showing: A Visual Creativity Technique
30: Only Connect #2: Technology Brokering and Innovation Networks
16: Creativity or Testosterone?
16: Compendium Mania!
15: 'Entrepreneurial Drive Revives In Silicon Valley'
15: VCs As Innomediaries?
14: It’s Not *Really* Creativity In The First Place -- Just Testosterone:
14: IBM Loves Austin:
10: Summer Hiatus
10:
10:
03: It's Raining Names
03: Premises, Premises
03: Good Ideas About Good Ideas
01: SIT! -- A Walk On The Path Of Most Resistance

June 2003
27: Flying on Buffalo Wings, Part 2
25: Flying On Buffalo Wings, Part 1
24: Shuffle Off To Buffalo
18: Expression-Invention/Creativity-Innovation
18: Collective Creativity In Action
12: The Critical Elements Of Innovation
12: Individual Creativity, Group Innovation?
12: Communicating Innovation: You Need A Pete Anderson!
09: The Difference Between Creativity and Innovation
05: Mapping The Discipline Of Innovation
02: Business-Model Experimentation At IBM
01: Idea Country

May 2003
29: Renee, Going Forward
27: Innovation On The Road
27: Studying Corporate Innovation: Start With What Works
27: Innovators Connecting With Innovators
20: Innovation Road Trip Follow-Up
14: Survey of Business Innovation Practices, Part II
14: Software For Thinking
13: Innovation Kudos From Harvard University
13: 99 Purple Cows
12: WackyUses.com: WD-40 For Your Mind
09: More On Idea Generation Tools and Techniques
07: Creative Taxonomic Lust
06: Playing Idea Catch-Up
06: We've Got RSS!!!
01: George Kozmetsky: 1917-2003

April 2003
30: Creativity + Knowledge Management = Idea Management
28: Government, Blogs And Innovation: An 'Open Innovation' Follow-up
25: Innovation Under Attack, Says Rheingold at ETCON
25: M2M Debuts!
22: It's A Keeper: New HBS Strategy & Innovation Newsletter
18: Open Innovation: Interview with Henry Chesbrough, Part 3
17: Open Innovation: Interview with Henry Chesbrough, Part 2
16: Open Innovation: Interview with Henry Chesbrough, Part 1
14: Open Innovation: Interview Coming Soon!
04: Ideas About Blogging Ideas
03: Happy 30th Birthday, Cell Phones and PCs
02: Hey Game Developers: Got Creativity?
01: Oops! Sorry, Harvard!
01: Can "Systematic Invention" Beat Brainstorming?

March 2003
27: The Dark Side of Innovation
26: Innovation: 'The Little Engine That Could' Pushes Up The Slow-Economy Hill
25: More Quick Hits
25: Portrait of an Inventor
25: Social Software: A Wiki Wave to the Future of Creativity
24: Climbing Out Of The Hole….
14: A Blog Tour of SXSW
14: Ode to ‘Heh’
04: Raging Bloggers & New Ideas
04: Metaphorically Speaking
04: Ideaflow...
03: Welcome, Living Code
03: The Write Software For Ideas

February 2003
26: Innovation On Ice
25: Big Test Iced
25: The 5% Fallacy
20: Demo 2003 Peers Into The Future
20: Online Magnetic Poetry
19: The Creative End Of The Gene Pool
19: Innovation Webinar/Event/Thingy
19: More Collective Creativity Via Blog
19: Blog Bursts & Contextual Creativity
17: Friends of Creativity
17: Google Buys Blogger
17: Fast 50 Winners
17: The Short, Funny Life Of An Idea
14: 2003: The Year of Duct Tape
12: In The Garage
11: While I Was Learning To Dance…
11: 'In And Out' Conference Blogging
07: Winterfest, Day 3: Graduation
06: Winterfest, Day 2:Learning The CPS Two-Step
05: Winterfest - Day 1 (updated)

January 2003
28: That Vision Thing In Our Living Rooms
28: Not Consumers - Creators And Customers
28: Cows & Clues
24: The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Theory of Innovation
23: Get Your Purple Cow Right Here
21: IdeaFlow Archives And Email
17: Innovative People Are A Pain In The Ass…
17: Constructive Creative Commons
16: Innovation & Creativity Conferences Upcoming
16: Whiz-Bang New Tech Products....
15: A Creative Take On Copyright
13: Metaphors And All That Jazz
08: Name That Secret Ingredient
08: Calling British Entrepreneurs
08: Creativity Comes In Last?
06: The Idea Of Genius
06: Things To Do in 2003: Mine The Future
06: Idea Fest
01: Happy New Year! And How Did They Make That?!
01: Live Hard, Write Great Songs, Die Young

December 2002
29: A Birthday Smack for 'Ideas At Work'
24: Have A Jalapeno Christmas!
23: All Hail The Grinch
23: Sometimes Even Bankers Understand Creative Carpe Diem
20: Minds Must Continue To Wander
20: Chris Is Here!
19: Improv-Fueled Collaboration
18: Conversational Blogflow
17: Creative Commons-Like Effort
17: A Couple Of Cool Things...
16: Making Good Ideas Into Reality…
16: There'll Be No Depression In The Creative Commons
13: Collective Creativity At The Edge
11: Create > Transform
11: The Poetry of Programming
09: Where Monopoly Came From
06: Year’s Best In Innovation
06: Requiem For Roone
06: Smart Mobs and New Ideas
05: Gladwell Gets It
04: Conversation And Possibility
04: Six Thoughts For ‘Ordinary Innovators’
04: Creativity And Software Development
04: More Creativity & Innovation Blogs
04: Conversation And Possibility
03: What’s Coming Up On The Creative Calendar
02: Group Creativity: Flow, Improvisation, Conversation, Blogs

November 2002
26: Innovate Or Die
26: Why Blogs Are Not 'Distributed Creativity'
26:
25: The Essential Idea of Copyright
25: More On Collective Creativity
22: Fast Company Wants You
22: Innovation In The News
22: Intuition + Creativity = 'The Osbournes'
22: Blogosphere = Collective Creativity
21: Scientists Planning To Make New Form of Life
21: Major Dollars Going To R&D, Pt. 2
19: Online ‘Invention At Play’ Site
19: Innovate While You Wait
19: Putting Wireless To Other, New Uses
18: Thinking Outside The Box
18: Wireless: The New Frontier For Innovation
18: ‘We’re in an innovation upturn’
18: Tech Innovation Lives, Says Khosla
15: Innovations In The News
14: Creatives, Time Is Not Your Friend!
14: Extrinsic Vs. Intrinsic Motivation: Which Fosters More Creativity?
14: Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity, Pt. 2
13: Measuring Success In Creativity
13: "Nobody get[s] their great ideas in a hotel room."
12: Invention: The Art of Observation, Curiosity and Serendipity
12:
11: Q. Where Does Innovation Come From? A. The Internet
08: Stock Options: An Economic Engine of Innovation?
05: Putting Google to New/Other Uses

October 2002
31: Thinking Outside The Gourd
24: More Books on Innovation and Creativity
22: What Are The Best Books On Creativity?
21:
21: Low Long-Term Interest Rates > Innovation > Bubbles of Monopoly Power
17: The Idea of Copyright
17: P = Put to Other or New Uses
16:
16: Eldred v. Ashcroft: Creativity Goes To Court
15:
15: New ideas & inventions mentioned today in other Corante columns:
15: Dealing With Loss: Should We Trust St. Christopher, or GPS?
14: Creativity, Both Random and Collaborative
14: Idea People: Peter Mulvey
14:
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11: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity
10: Natural vs. Unnatural Creativity (To TRIZ Or Not To TRIZ)
04: Who's Fast 2003