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About Braden Kelley

Braden Kelley is a Human-Centered Experience, Innovation and Transformation consultant at HCL Technologies, a popular innovation speaker, and creator of the FutureHacking™ and Human-Centered Change™ methodologies. He is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons and Charting Change (Second Edition) from Palgrave Macmillan. Braden is a US Navy veteran and earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School. Follow him on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Global Innovation Index 2011 – Inputs and Outputs

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Global Innovation Index 2011 - Inputs and OutputsThis article is the second in a series of four articles digging into the recently released Global Innovation Index 2011 put together by Insead along with knowledge partners Alcatel-Lucent, Booz & Co., the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

There is a lot of data in the Global Innovation Index 2011 and so I thought it would share it with you bit by bit to make it digestible and then share my overall thoughts. In the first article we shared the overall Global Innovation Index 2011 country rankings. These overall rankings are based on two main components – innovation inputs and innovation outputs.

Below you’ll find the country rankings based on innovation inputs and the country ranking based on innovation outputs.

The source data for creating the innovation inputs rankings includes:

1. Institutions

1.1 Political environment
– 1.1.1 Political stability
– 1.1.2 Government effectiveness
– 1.1.3 Press freedom

1.2 Regulatory Environment
– 1.2.1 Regulatory quality
– 1.2.2 Rule of law
– 1.2.3 Rigidity of employment

1.3 Business Environment
– 1.3.1 Time to start a business, days
– 1.3.2 Cost to start a business, % income/cap
– 1.3.3 Total tax rate, % profits

2. Human Capital & Research

2.1 Education
– 2.1.1 Education expenditure, % GNI
– 2.1.2 Public expenditure/pupil, % GDP/cap
– 2.1.3 School life expectancy, years
– 2.1.4 PISA scales in reading, maths, & science
– 2.1.5 Pupil-teacher ratio, secondary

2.2 Tertiary Education
– 2.2.1 Tertiary enrollment, % gross
– 2.2.2 Graduates in science, %
– 2.2.3 Graduates in engineering, %
– 2.2.4 Tertiary inbound mobility, %
– 2.2.5 Tertiary outbound mobility, %
– 2.2.6 Gross tertiary outbound enrollment, %

2.3 Research & Development (R&D)
– 2.3.1 Researchers headcount/million pop
– 2.3.2 Gross expenditure on R&D, % GDP
– 2.3.3 Quality research institutions

3. Infrastructure

3.1 Info & Comm. Technologies (ICT)
– 3.1.1 ICT access
– 3.1.2 ICT use
– 3.1.3 Government’s Online Service
– 3.1.4 E-Participation

3.2 Energy
– 3.2.1 Electricity output, kWh/cap
– 3.2.2 Electricity consumption, kWh/capita
– 3.2.3 GDP/unit of energy use, PPP$/kg oil eq.
– 3.2.4 Share of renewables in energy use, %

3.3 General Infrastructure
– 3.3.1 Quality of trade & transport infrastructure
– 3.3.2 Gross capital formation, % GDP
– 3.3.3 Ecological footprint & biocapacity, ha/cap

4. Market Sophistication

4.1 Credit
– 4.1.1 Strength of legal rights for credit
– 4.1.2 Depth of credit information
– 4.1.3 Domestic credit to private sector, % GDP
– 4.1.4 Microfinance gross loans, % GDP

4.2 Investment
– 4.2.1 Strength of investor protection
– 4.2.2 Market capitalization, % GDP
– 4.2.3 Total value of stocks traded, % GDP
– 4.2.4 Venture capital deals/tr GDP PPP$

4.3 Trade & Competition
– 4.3.1 Applied tariff rate weighted mean, %
– 4.3.2 Market access trade restrictiveness*, %
– 4.3.3 Imports of goods & services, % GDP
– 4.3.4 Exports of goods & services, % GDP
– 4.3.5 Intensity local competition

5. Business Sophistication

5.1 Knowledge Workers
– 5.1.1 Knowledge-intensive employment, %
– 5.1.2 Firms offering formal training, % firms
– 5.1.3 R&D performed by business, %
– 5.1.4 R&D financed by business, %

5.2 Innovation Linkages
– 5.2.1 University/industry collaboration
– 5.2.2 State of cluster development
– 5.2.3 R&D financed by abroad, %
– 5.2.4 JV/strategic alliance deals/tr GDP PPP$
– 5.2.5 PCT patent filings with foreign inventor, %

5.3 Knowledge Absorption
– 5.3.1 Royalty & license fees payments, % GDP
– 5.3.2 High-tech imports less re-imports, %
– 5.3.3 Computer & comm. service imports, %
– 5.3.4 FDI net inflows, % GDP

Here are the country rankings from the Global Innovation Index 2011 based on innovation inputs:

Global Innovation Index 2011 Inputs

The source data for creating the innovation outputs rankings includes:

6. Scientific Outputs

6.1 Knowledge Creation
– 6.1.1 Domestic resident patent ap/bn GDP PPP$
– 6.1.2 PCT resident patent ap/bn GDP PPP$
– 6.1.3 Domestic res utility model ap/bn GDP PPP$
– 6.1.4 Scientific & technical articles/bn GDP PPP$

6.2 Knowledge Impact
– 6.2.1 Growth rate of GDP PPP$/worker, %
– 6.2.2 New businesses/1,000 pop. 15–64 yrs
– 6.2.3 Computer software spending, % GDP

6.3 Knowledge Diffusion
– 6.3.1 Royalty & license fees receipts, % GDP
– 6.3.2 High-tech exports less re-exports, %
– 6.3.3 Computer & comm service exports, %
– 6.3.4 FDI net outflows, % GDP

7. Creative Outputs

7.1 Creative Intangibles
– 7.1.1 Domestic res trademark ap/bn GDP PPP$
– 7.1.2 Madrid resident trademark ap/bn GDP PPP$
– 7.1.3 ICT & business models
– 7.1.4 ICT & organizational models

7.2 Creative Goods & Services
– 7.2.1 Recreation & culture consumption, %
– 7.2.2 National feature films/mn pop
– 7.2.3 Daily newspapers/1,000 literate pop
– 7.2.4 Creative goods exports, %
– 7.2.5 Creative services exports, %

Here are the country rankings from the Global Innovation Index 2011 based on innovation outputs:

Global Innovation Index 2011 Outputs

In future articles we will take a look at the Innovation Efficiency Index from the Global Innovation Index 2011, which compares the two, and our thoughts about the study in general.

Check back in the coming days for additional articles highlighting whatever insights I can extract from the Global Innovation Index 2011 report. Until then, feel free to sound off in the comments about whether you believe your country’s position in the innovation inputs or outputs rankings are justified or off base.

Additional Global Innovation Index 2011 Articles:

#1 – Global Innovation Index 2011 – Country Rankings
#2 – THE ARTICLE ABOVE
#3 – Coming Soon
#4 – Coming Soon

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Global Innovation Index 2011 – Country Rankings

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Global Innovation Index 2011 - Country RankingsThis article will be the first of a series of articles digging into the recently released Global Innovation Index 2011. In this issue we will give you just the country rankings. In the coming days I will dig through the Global Innovation Index 2011 report and see what interesting insights I can uncover about innovation in different regions, and report back here on Human-Centered Change & Innovation.

The Global Innovation Index 2011 was put together by Insead along with knowledge partners Alcatel-Lucent, Booz & Co., the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

So without further ado, here is the Global Innovation Index 2011 rankings of the world’s most innovative countries (based on inputs and outputs):

Global Innovation Index 2011 Country Rankings

Check back in the coming days for additional articles highlighting whatever insights I can extract from the Global Innovation Index 2011 report. In the meantime, feel free to sound off in the comments about whether you believe your country’s position is justified or off base.

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An Innovation Perfect Storm?

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An Innovation Perfect Storm?There have been several recent product announcements or launches that move a step closer to the future vision of computing that I began advocating two years ago. That vision that moves computing to the pocket, home, or office and envisions display and input devices relevant to the context the person is currently in.

I believed two years ago and still believe that what the world needs is not more smart devices, but more flexible and plentiful dumb devices that are driven by the one smart device to rule them all – an extensible smart phone that can not only drive multiple display and input devices wirelessly, but also augment its processing and storage capabilities via wireless devices or the cloud.

Here is a flashback to what I said the Apple iPhone should become two years ago:

“People don’t want a fourth screen. What they want to do is extend the screen they have in their pocket.”

What would be most valuable for people, what they really want, is an extensible, pocketable device that connect wirelessly to whatever input or output devices that they might need to fit the context of what they want to do. To keep it simple and Apple-specific, in one pocket you’ve got your iPhone, and in your other pocket you’ve got a larger screen with limited intelligence that folds in half (or quarters) and connects to your iPhone and can also transmit touch and gesture input for those times when you want a bigger screen. When you get to work you put your iPhone on the desk and it connects to your monitor, keyboard, and possibly even auxiliary storage and processing unit to augment the iPhone’s onboard capabilities. Ooops! Time for a meeting, so I grab my iPhone, get to the conference room and wirelessly connect my iPhone to the in-room projector and do my presentation. On the bus home I can watch a movie or read a book, and when I get home I can connect my iPhone to the television and download a movie or watch something from my TV subscriptions. So why do I need to spend $800 for a fourth screen again?

So what are some of the devices that show that we’re getting close to realizing this vision?

  1. Motorola AtrixMotorola Atrix – A dockable 4G smart phone that while apparently it makes a pretty good smart phone, the lapdock that it connects to in order to give you laptop type functionality has received pretty poor reviews – making it sound like it’s not very-well designed or compelling.

  2. RIM Blackberry PlaybookRIM Blackberry Playbook – RIM’s entry into the tablet market is the Blackberry Playbook. RIM failed to take the full leap and release an inexpensive dumb screen that connects to the user’s Blackberry. Instead it appears to be a fully functional (and priced) 7-inch tablet computer that uses the bigger screen to display the user’s email from their mobile handset without cables. RIM’s lack of commitment to the vision I’ve laid out has resulted in a ‘stuck in the middle’ device that is unlikely to catch on in the marketplace.

  3. Nintendo WiiU – Nintendo is launching an oversize motion sensing controller that also has a display for game developers to utilize to extend the gaming environment out of the TV and closer to the gamer. This opens up the opportunity to either remove some of the visual visual clutter from the big screen onto the little one (creating a more immersive experience) or to leverage the second screen to deliver more game information (imagine flipping through pages of item inventories, maps, etc.). In this case the Nintendo Wii has the smarts and delivers the images wirelessly to the WiiU controller.

Now, let’s discuss Apple’s efforts in advancing the vision I laid out a couple of years to hopefully encourage device manufacturers to make it real so that we can all enjoy a more flexible, useful, valuable computing experience across multiple contexts.

Apple is launching Airplay Mirroring in iOS5 (PICTURED AT THE TOP) which allows you to display what’s on your Apple iPad2 (or part of it in the case of specially programmed games or other apps) WIRELESSLY. Apparently Airplay Mirroring works with all 90,000 iPad apps. There is one catch – you must have an Apple TV connected to your TV. Taken a step further, the next Apple iPhone will have the same (or better) processor that’s inside the Apple iPad2 and will run iOS5 so it may have Airplay Mirroring as well. These latest developments may also be part of the reason we are hearing rumblings of Apple and Samsung possibly partnering together to bring out a line of Apple branded televisions. Personally I think that would be the wrong way to go. Apple should focus on selling the minimal hardware necessary to facilitate an Airplay Mirroring connection to anyone who wants to build the connection capability into their televisions (or tablets or monitors or conference room projectors or laptops). Here is a video that shows all of the Apple Airplay Mirroring capabilities:

As you can see Apple is getting very close to fully realizing the potential of the vision I laid out a couple of years ago and it’s all very exciting. Of course they will probably make it work with only Apple hardware, so that leaves a huge opportunity for someone like HP or Dell or Samsung to take this and run with it in the way I’ve described now that the major hurdle (the video transmission) seems to have been solved, and to bring it to the mass audience. Here’s one company that has a conference room flat panel solution. Hopefully the big players will get together and build a standard so we can all enjoy the benefits of mobile-centric, extensible, flexible, context-sensitive computing very soon. Come on folks you’re almost to the finish line, just a little bit more innovating and you’re there!

How exciting!

P.S. I still believe there is an opportunity for someone to subsidize the cost of a bigger screen (to drive massive adoption) by allocating a portion of the potential incremental media purchases or search advertising that it would drive but nobody has done that yet.

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Will Death of Blockbuster Kill Redbox?

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Will Death of Blockbuster Kill Redbox?Let’s examine something that has been bothering me for a little while. I’ve been renting my movies from Blockbuster and Redbox for years, but now my local Blockbuster store is closing. When I’ve expressed this sadness to friends and colleagues, people just tell me to get Netflix.

Let’s dig quickly into the psychology behind the Netflix/Blockbuster/Redbox choice that each of us has been making. Now, I’m a big fan of technology, but it has its limitations. One of those limitations is that technology can isolate people from the real world. I know all you social media zealots and self-proclaimed experts out there are shouting ‘heresy’ back at me, but hey, that’s why there is a comments box down at the bottom of each article here—for people to engage in a wee bit of dialog.

While social media does serve to connect people, it also serves to disconnect them. To read more on the double-edged impact of social media you might want to check out the book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other by Dr. Sherry Turkle.

Layered on top of the tensions between technology, psychology and social interaction is that people are as different as they are the same. As much as we like to think we’re all individuals, when it comes to market dynamics, we tend to be different. That’s why we segment our customers into groups for marketing purposes, test for personality types in team situations, and create separate brands for different groups of customers.

Given all of this, there is an impact of Blockbuster going out of business that I don’t think many people are anticipating, and that is the likelihood that Blockbuster’s demise will actually accelerate the demise of Redbox. This is because, unlike the assumption most people would make, Blockbuster and Redbox are more complements than substitutes. When Redbox emerged people used it as an arbitrage against Blockbuster to get cheaper rentals from Redbox while still retaining the pleasure of physical browsing and the selection advantage Blockbuster provides over Redbox.

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Innovation and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Innovation and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Now that my local Blockbuster has gone out of business, I’ve made the jump and joined Netflix (although I will miss taking trips to Blockbuster with my daughter).

The first disc in my queue to arrive was the venerable, enjoyable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I was very excited to share this musical celebration of innovation with my daughter last night.

The story of course puts innovation (and learning from failure) front and center, and is a lot of fun at the same time.

The star object is of course the car, but the best supporting object as it were, is a sweet with holes in it.

At first nobody thinks much of the sweets with holes in them made by one of the Dick Van Dyke character’s inventions (“your sugar is getting too hot” comments Truly Scrumptious), but then he discovers that these sweets with holes in them can work like little miniature flutes and he thinks he is on to something. But, after demonstrating them at the candy factory a mob of dogs swarms the place, and he has to flee the scene (no sale). It’s only at the very end that the sweet failure is again transformed into a treat for dogs and everyone is going to become very wealthy as a result.

It’s a great lesson in changing perspectives, learning from failure when it does occur and also illustrates that sometimes you have to adapt an invention from your intended target market to another one in order to transform the invention into a successful innovation.

But, learning from failure is highlighted in an even more fun (and musical) way in the ‘The Roses of Success’ number.

If you’d like to see the video of the song, here it is:

And if you’d like to give the words a closer look, here are the lyrics (courtesy stlyrics.com):

Every bursted bubble has a glory!
Each abysmal failure makes a point!
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
So every time you stumble never grumble.
Next time you’ll bumble even less!
For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Oh yes!
Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!
(spoken)Yes I know but he wants it to float. It will!
For every big mistake you make be grateful!
Here, here!
That mistake you’ll never make again!
No sir!
Every shiny dream that fades and dies,
Generates the steam for two more tries!
(Oh) There’s magic in the wake of a fiasco!
Correct!
It gives you that chance to second guess!
Oh yes!
Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!
Disaster didn’t stymie Louis Pasteur!
No sir!
Edison took years to see the light!
Right!
Alexander Graham knew failure well; he took a lot of knocks to ring that bell!
So when it gets distressing it’s a blessing!
Onward and upward you must press!
Yes, Yes!
Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success.
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Those rosy ro
Those rosy ro
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!
Start the engines!
Success!
Batten the hatches!
Success!
Man the shrouds!
Lift the anchor!
Success!

P.S. If you enjoyed this post you should check out my post – Another Innovation Movie for Kids

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Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire for Free

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Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire for FreeThe reactions to my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons have been very positive. There have already been fifteen reviews of the book on Amazon and several university professors are looking at possibly using the book as part of their courses at different schools.

Thank you to all of you whom have already purchased and read and reviewed the book. It is very gratifying and motivating to see people investing their money in taking the book home with them and investing their time to read it.

I worked very hard to make the book both accessible and valuable, a book that can be useful to both current innovation practitioners and those just looking to either learn more about innovation or to jump-start their own innovation initiatives inside their organizations. And while I didn’t intentionally design the book to serve as a course text, reading back through it I find that it is actually quite well-suited to this purpose given its systematic approach.

I wanted to craft a quick message of thanks to those who have already purchased the book while also continuing my mission to make innovation insights accessible by alerting anyone who might be holding back from purchasing the book to two possible ways of getting a copy of the book to read for free.

Option #1 – Educators

If you are an instructor at an institution of higher education and would like to get a free evaluation copy of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, you can do so by registering with my publisher John Wiley & Sons or logging in with your existing Wiley account details, and requesting an evaluation copy to be sent to you.

Option #2 – Citizens

Most libraries allow the citizens they serve to request that they order a particular book, and usually if they do order it you will be the first one to be able to check it out after they acquire it. This allows not only the person making the request to read the book for free, but also lots of other members of your community. I don’t know about your library, but the selection of innovation books at my city and county libraries is quite limited, but they both now have copies of the new Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. For those of you that live in New York City, The New York Public Library just ordered and received five copies of the book.

Why not ask your local library to order it?

– A request form usually looks like this
– You can get the ISBN (0470621672) and any other information they might request here on Amazon

Thank You For Your Support

So, from the bottom of my heart let me just say thank you to all of you out there that take the time to read my articles here and on the American Express OPEN Forum and my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. For those of you who are regular readers of Blogging Innovation, stay tuned for a third way to get a copy of my book for free as very soon we will be running a giveaway with three signed copies up for grabs as prizes linked to you telling us what your favorite five Blogging Innovation articles of all time have been so far. Stay tuned!

And in the meantime, if you’re looking for a book on Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, I encourage you to check out the new book A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough, and with contributions from 30+ authors including yours truly, and many other great names including Stefan Lindegaard, Stephen Shapiro, Jeffrey Phillips and more. It’s available now from Amazon UK, Amazon France, and Amazon Germany and should be available on Amazon.com, Amazon Canada, and Amazon Japan around the end of March (but it is available for pre-order on those sites already).

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Seth Godin and Amazon – The Domino Project

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Will the Innovation Dominoes Fall and Disrupt the Book Publishing Industry?

Seth Godin and Amazon - The Domino Project“The enemy is not piracy, the enemy is obscurity.” – Tim O’Reilly

I came across a TechCrunch TV interview with Seth Godin today about his future publishing plans.

I’ve been wondering what Seth meant when he told me last year at the World Innovation Forum that he would never publish another traditional book. Here is the video:

Now, he has made it clear what he meant, and just what his future plans are in the below video from Tech Crunch. His plans have a name, The Domino Project, and it is a publishing house venture he is undertaking with Amazon and it starts with a simple question:

How do you make a book spreadable?

Right now books work very hard against being spreadable, and in Amazon’s continuing quest to evolve the book business beyond just selling ebooks and blogs on Kindle, they apparently approached Seth Godin, gave him a blank sheet of paper to envision a new way of approaching book publishing. He described this collaboration with Amazon – The Domino Project – through a series of questions:

What happens if we allowed you to buy a 5-pack for only slightly more than one book? Wouldn’t you then give four of them away to people who would be interested in reading them?

What happens if we allowed people to share a Kindle book for free for a certain period of time and then try to figure out how to make money from it?

Can you dream big enough?

Can you do something that is worth doing, or will you hold back and play it safe?

Amazon will be working directly with authors – including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Godin’s new book will of course be included (and will be on initiative). He also mentioned that the trend of these new books will be towards the spectrum of manifestos. Traditional book publishers can’t do 96 page books, but The Domino Project can. Godin says that the success of the effort will be measured on whether or not the first 10,000 people who get the book, actually share it.

So, what was the most depressing part of the interview?

“The average American buys one book a year.”

Will The Domino Project successfully disintermediate the traditional publishing houses and transform how authors go about publishing book? Is there anything here that is actually new? What do you think?

Here’s the video interview if you would like to watch it for yourself:

Seth Godin’s new book Poke the Box will be The Domino Project’s first title and it will come as a limited edition, a hardcover, a Kindle ebook, an audiobook, a 5-pack, and a 52-pack.

Oh, and if you don’t have my a copy of my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire already, it’s available on Amazon as a hardcover or a Kindle eBook, or from other great physical and online booksellers:

Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire

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An Open Letter on Innovation to President Obama

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An Open Letter on Innovation to President Obama“We need to out-innovate, outeducate, and outbuild the rest of the world” – President Obama

In reading the stories and quotes from last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama, it is clear, and frustrates me to no end, that my government talks a lot about innovation but still does not understand how to foster it. Innovation in America, especially in the short term, is not achieved by pumping huge sums of money into government-sponsored research and development efforts. Yes, many successful innovations have resulted from government research investments, but we need to take a more strategic approach to these efforts. The focus on research and capital projects by the Obama administration also begs the question of whether long-term investments be our only approach to innovation.

The Internet itself may be one of the most successful government research and development efforts, but we need more of these types of platform innovation investments, not just spending on basic research. We need to think strategically and fund those research efforts that could serve as platform innovations to power a whole new wave of innovative business ideas and job-creating companies in this country.

High-speed internet will boost worker productivity a bit sure, but worker productivity would be boosted even more by working to reduce the friction we all face in dealing with the government to get things done in our work and personal lives. Investing in high-speed internet is not an innovation investment, it is trying to get back to parity with the level of service that other counties enjoy. And besides, private sector competition should be driving high-speed internet construction, not government investment. Furthermore, if we are going to make investments that take a long time to realize, we should be looking to leapfrog the competition, not skate to where the puck used to be.

For all of the talk about innovation, there is far too little action in American government. And even as much attention as the word innovation received in the press from yesterday’s State of the Union speech, the magnitude of its use is interesting in this graphic from Fast Company that I modified to highlight where “innovation” shows up in the word cloud (it was used only NINE times by my count):

Obama Innovation Wordcloud

We need to take a step back and define what the role of government is in our overall innovation efforts as a country:

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Stoke Someone’s Holiday Innovation Stocking

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Special Offer – Three (3) Free Innovation Bonfires

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Who says there is no such thing as free speech?
(well, nearly free)

Innovation Keynote Speaker Braden KelleyIn the spirit of the holiday season, I would like to offer as a gift to you the loyal readers of Blogging Innovation three free events.

NO MINIMUM BOOK PURCHASES

I have some open spots in my year-end schedule, and if you are one of the first three (3) organizations to commit to hosting a ‘Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire‘ event by December 31, 2010 — I will waive 100% of my normal speaking fee to come and present some of the key insights from the book along with time for questions and answers for FREE at your organization or event (travel expenses still apply).

I’ll come to you and share my thoughts about identifying and removing barriers to innovation, including:

  1. The Power of Simplicity
  2. Speaking a Common Language
  3. Rediscovering Your Innovation Superpowers
  4. Creating and Maintaining Innovation Alignment
  5. The Nine Innovation Roles

Click here to take advantage of this offer.



Special Bonus

Download 'Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire' sample chapterIf you’ve read all the way to the bottom, then you deserve a free sample chapter from my new book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I hope you enjoy the sample chapter and consider purchasing the book as a way of supporting the future growth of this community.

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