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Platform thinking….
A powerful approach to innovation involves leveraging your knowledge base…… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)...
John Bessant
Mar 7, 20171 min read
Frustration as the Mother of Invention….
Looking again at the increasingly powerful role of users in innovation… Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click...
John Bessant
Jan 19, 20171 min read
Knowledge as a social process
Innovation is all about converting knowledge to value – so it’s worth looking again at how knowledge operates as a social process and...
John Bessant
Nov 7, 20161 min read


Creativity under constraint
It’s easy to think that innovation is about resources – throw enough money, smart minds and clever technology at the problem and the...
John Bessant
Oct 2, 20166 min read

Making space for innovation
Innovation is all about making connections – but where and how can we help this process to happen? Share this: Click to share on Twitter...
John Bessant
Sep 13, 20161 min read
Learning from the humanitarian innovation laboratory
Learning from the humanitarian innovation laboratory Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on...
John Bessant
Aug 23, 20161 min read


Playing with innovation
The importance of experimentation and prototyping – click here for more Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click...
John Bessant
Aug 4, 20161 min read
Bridging different worlds ….
Some thoughts on the power of recombinant innovation…. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on...
John Bessant
Jul 15, 20161 min read

Playing chess with the Red Queen…
Dealing with today’s innovation challenges has more than a little in common with the experiences of Alice in Wonderland, as this blog...
John Bessant
Jun 8, 20161 min read

Frugal innovation
Say the word ‘frugal’ – and it conjures images of making do, eking out scarce resources, managing on a shoestring. And in the world of...
John Bessant
Apr 26, 20165 min read

Teaching and Coaching Innovation – in innovative fashion!
The challenge comes not in recognizing the need for change but working out how to respond. Anyone might get lucky once but if we want to...
John Bessant
Mar 17, 20162 min read
High involvement innovation
This site has some excellent videos and case examples of employee involvement in innovation….. http://uk.ukwon.eu/euwin-film-bank Share...
John Bessant
Feb 1, 20161 min read


Once upon a time ……
Chances are that as you read that your body went into a well-rehearsed routine. You relaxed, your head perhaps cocked to one side, you...
John Bessant
Jan 21, 20166 min read
Absorptive capacity for open innovation
In our increasingly open innovation world wouldn’t it be useful to have ‘‘the ability …. to recognize the value of new, external...
John Bessant
Nov 1, 20153 min read
Sustainable innovation
These days the innovation agenda has a significant space devoted to thinking about the challenge of sustainability.  Maybe you’re a...
John Bessant
Oct 22, 20153 min read
High involvement innovation
In an uncertain world there can’t be many organizations which don’t recognize the importance of innovation – and the need to mobilize as...
John Bessant
Oct 11, 20153 min read
Accidents will happen……
Accidents will happen – and as far as innovation is concerned, that’s a good thing. Whilst much of our attention is on the focused...
John Bessant
Sep 28, 20154 min read
Strengthening the humanitarian innovation system
‘If we don’t innovate we won’t survive!’ How often have you heard that truism, and watched heads nodding in the conference room as they...
John Bessant
Jul 17, 20151 min read

Just published…..
A new edition of ‘Innovation and entrepreneurship’ , John Bessant and Joe Tidd Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3rd Edition is an...
John Bessant
May 7, 20151 min read
Crisis driven innovation
Research in creativity suggests we’re good at solving problems – but we can also be a bit lazy! We satisfice, finding good enough...
John Bessant
Apr 21, 20154 min read
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