Writing goals and plans down on paper and defining them, precisely, help us productively confront what's in our minds and hearts. Chiseled words can help bring clarity and guidance. For that reason, ...

For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation, social innovation, technological innovation, etc. The concept of innovation in general is, more than ...

Professor Gary Hamel, founder of the Strategos Consulting Firm and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the London Business School, ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational ...

Innovation is hard to define. Is it one major breakthrough that can change the world? Is it a novel product that meets the needs of a mass audience? Is it just something cool? We know something is ...

"The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results." This quote, often misattributed to Albert Einstein, is what I consider a perfect ...

Throughout my time as executive director of MIT Solve, an initiative that seeks to drive transformational change in the world, I have learned and relearned a key lesson: Innovation is not what or who ...

To grow our economy, we need to stop unicorn hunting, and reset why innovation matters. We must give “innovation” back its broader meaning. Today, many people think of innovation only as the creation ...

In this book I integrate new theory and new research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free innovation involves innovations developed and given away by consumers as a “free ...

Amidst all the banging on from the Australian government on the topics of innovation, agility, and exciting times, one question has yet to be answered: What exactly is an innovative company that is ...