Both studies strongly recommended that IBM embrace Linux across its product lines, that IBM should work closely with the open Linux community as a partner in its development, and that we should establish an organization to coordinate Linux activities across the company. days, the community concept behind open source was mystifying to many.  MORE >>

TED’s Chris Anderson talks about How Web Video Powers Global Innovation. But one example of online video. The notion that innovation springs from the head of a lone genius is misleading. Crowd-accelerated innovation. Think of three dials controlling a giant innovation wheel. Flip cams open the world. MORE >>

For several years now I have been thinking about the differences between various models of innovation and entrepreneurship.  The Silicon Valley model has become the most prominent example of what it means to be a successful innovation hub.   Can you be a center of technology-based innovation if you are not a high-tech center?  MORE >>

For example, over the past year I have given a number of seminars on Technology and Innovation in the Service Economy.  Such a dramatic shift in jobs is largely due to the massive productivity improvements in the agriculture and industrial sectors as a result of the technological advances and innovations of the Industrial Revolution. MORE >>

Chapter 5 from Living Networks , on Distributed Innovation – Intellectual Property in a Collaborative World , is still immensely relevant today. We are still relatively early on in working out the implications for innovation of distributed value creation. IMPLEMENTED DISTRIBUTED INNOVATION AND SHARED VALUE. MORE >>