Innovation CHEF

You’re invited – virtually!

This looks really really good.

HP, in collaboration with the International Society for Technology in Education, invites educators around the world to participate remotely in the 2010 HP Innovations in Education Worldwide Summit.

This year, more than 100 educators from 60 higher education and 20 secondary education institutions in 23 countries, will be attending the summit in person as part of their 2009 HP Innovations in Education grant. The event is scheduled for 22-24 February and includes opportunities to learn from education experts and innovation thought leaders such as Michael Horn (co-author of “Disrupting Class”), Georges Haddad (UNESCO, Higher Education initiatives), Phil McKinney (HP Innovation “guru” www.philmckinney.com), David Williamson Schaffer (www.epistemicgames.org), …and students as they discuss how social media impacts their learning experience.

Visit the Summit community at www.hpiie.org or follow along on Twitter #hpiie

Very excited to have an article published in the latest edition on Technology Ireland. The magazine is dedicated to providing the inspiration to innovate. Entrepreneurs, researchers and technology managers share their real life stories. It is a good read and a great resource.
The article is here.

I guess my pet topics came up.

• Encouragement of natural creativity
• Positive thinking
• TRIZ

The basic point I make and probably the basic point of this blog. is this…

Creativity is not a black art. Innovation can
be learned and developed. It may take some
perseverance in the beginning, but, as with any
skill, practice yields great results. A little coaching
and some simple techniques can help us relearn
what used to be everyday. Harnessing this skill
and focusing it is the key to creating an innovative
and smart economy. It can begin with you.

Love some feedback folks…

If you have something related to Innovation, Creativity or entreprenuership happening in Ireland or something you want to shout about just let me know and I’ll put the semi regular list togethe

Given the season coming doesn’t have to be too serious!

Mythbusters Christmas Rube Goldberg machine Video @ Vidly.net

Following up from a post from Brendan Hughes and some conversation on Twitter. I thought I’d try to list out all the Innovation Networks in  Ireland. I really didn’t find too many formal networks dedicated to Innovation. I have an informal one of Innovation trainers and IP folks as do many of us.

I must be missing loads though.
Please help out by adding ones I’ve missed.

The LinkedIn ones
Innovation Ireland is pretty new with 487 members already. Pretty Healthy discussions too.
Service Design & Innovation is more focused ( smaller too )
North West Science and Technology partnership is a good regional group.

There are a huge amount of global Innovation groups in LinkedIn.

First Tuesday have a number of smaller networks from their ZIRCOL web.
innovate Network, Big Ideas network, Creative Network Dublin

There is the Construction Enterprise Innovation Network from the IRDG who are looking for members for the Enterprise Innovation Network. The Irish Software Association (ISA) has one but no website apparently.

Help me build this!

From Miriam:

Dublin City Enterprise Board’s LINK! Network for Start-up Businesses to your list. Meets last Tuesday of the month. Check out http://www.dceb.ie for details.

From Siobhan:

Ideagen is a networking roadshow that will take place in 4 locations around the South-East region between October and December 2009.

From Mitchell

There is a new network for creative industries in Dublin called CreativeD (www.creatived.ie). It’s aim is to help Dublin establish itself as centre of creativity and innovation, and is run in partnership with Dublin City and County Enterprise Boards, Dublin City Council and the Digital Hub.

Here it is – a sneak peak into the Innovation Labs at InnovationChef.

There has been a lot of work behind the scenes with a crack group of co-conspirators with the aim of bringing a lot of new ideas and features your way.

There will be webinars, live training and some really special content.

This is really great stuff and I’ve enjoyed putting it together.

I would say watch this space…

…and you can…

…but if you have some cool ideas or want to get on board NOW is the time to act.

In the Lab:

• There is going to be a monthly Webinar on Innovation and Creativity. I’ve got some excellent folks lined up to share their knowledge on core (and tangential) topics.
• I’ve been helping out a Irish Startup company who have some amazing ideas around innovation put their training packages together.
• Exclusive content from one of the latest and hottest Irish authors on Innovation.

Never been a better time to subscribe.

I’m always keen to hear what is really needed.

email me or catch me on twitter.

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