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Decision Explorer is an ideas mapping tool (a “map” being a network of ideas and their associated links). It can be described as a qualitative data management and analysis tool (albeit not in the “code and retrieve” mold), in that it deals solely with qualitative data (ideas). It is also a “visual thinking” tool. Its purpose is to help you play with ideas, to structure them and explore the relationships between them and, in so doing, to move your thinking forward. The software is used to generate a visual representation of your, your interviewee’s or a group’s ideas about a particular issue. It gives you a means of capturing and structuring ideas

Idea Engine
The IDEA behind the idea engine is to provide a space for online collaboration and imagination through brainstorming or ideation. The idea engine is also ideal for collecting competitor intelligence.

CoBrain provides knowledge managers, researchers, engineers, information scientists, and research and development professionals with a powerful tool to leverage their company's knowledge and intellectual assets

Knowledgist is a powerful personal semantic processing tool that dramatically reduces the amount of time people spend looking for relevant information on the Web, an Intranet, or their own computer.

TechOptimizer is a comprehensive suite of knowledge-based innovation tools designed for the senior researcher. The software helps users to state and solve engineering problems correctly across many different fields.

Mindjet Visual Thinking tools give you the power to capture creative ideas and communicate them on your computer screen.  So you can see what you had in mind

Agilebrain.com is an e-zine dedicated to ideas for innovation. We're trying to create a space for exploration and discussion of what it means to be an innovative company, bringing you the people, the companies, and the products that push the performance envelope. We're trying to learn what works and what doesn't - a learning that often place occurs at the very edge of the enterprise. We want to take these successes and make them mainstream

Providing monumental ideas is tomorrow's currency. Tomorrow's currency is available today at BrightHouse.

"The ability to create better ideas than your competition is the only sustainable competitive advantage your company can have... and the only way your company will have a future." - Joey Reiman, Founder & CEO, BrightHouse

In Good Company is the first book to examine and explain the role that social capital--the value inherent in human connections, including trust, personal networks, and a sense of community--plays in the successful running of organizations. Knowledge management experts Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity--and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social capital. Drawing on the social sciences, economics, and engaging stories from organizations including the World Bank, IBM, the New York City Diamond Trade, and UPS, this book offers practical advice on how to recognize and develop this hidden resource for employee fulfillment and economic gain.

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu

Creativity For Innovation

Dubbed a "serial innovator" by The Economist, John Kao is a thought leader for the new economy. He is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, sought after speaker, Tony-nominated producer, and business pioneer. His areas of expertise include corporate innovation, digital commerce, the new management mindset, and the future of business.

The CoPS Innovation Centre is a joint venture between SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research (University of Sussex) and the Centre for Research in Innovation Management (University of Brighton). It receives its core funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and will raise additional funding from industry and government. The Centre works closely with the IMI/RA Eng. Chair in Innovative Manufacturing.

Improving performance in complex products and systems through inter-project knowledge capture and transfer'.

http://www.creativityatwork.com/Currency.html

Sister to another non-profit: http://www.dobe.org/, the website for participatory events in every city in the world. The Global Ideas Bank is a member of the New Civilization Network

Lawrence Lessig

Shira P.White with G.Patton Wright

Unleash Your Ideavirus

Here's a big idea: Ideas are driving the economy. Here's a bigger idea: Ideas that spread fastest win

http://www.ideavirus.com/

by John Perry Barlow

The Next Economy Of Ideas
Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.

By John Perry Barlow

http://www.wired.com

The Society of Mind Requires an Economy of Mind

The Ingenuity Gap

The new economy is an "idea economy." Economic growth has always been motored by ideas: moveable type, steam engines, power looms. Given the increasing pace of innovation that rests on ever newer ideas and the importance of information based products that are easily diffused in perfect form over digital networks, the question of intellectual property becomes central. The growing specialization of the US economy in the industry of innovation itself means that we now have an economy that is more specialized in the high-value-added role of creating and commercializing ideas. The notion of intellectual property and the economics of ideas now matters to us in an extremely serious way. Ideas and "information goods" have particular characteristics that distinguish them from ordinary goods. These include

1. marginal costs of reproduction and distribution that approach zero;
2. problems of transparency. Iin order to buy it I should know what the information or idea is; once I know it, in many cases, there is no need to buy it; and
3. non-rival possession. If you have a hamburger, I cannot have it. But if you know something and I learn it, you still know it. Once I know it, I no longer have an incentive to compensate you to teach me.

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