Bibliography
Innovation and Creativity

Books, Articles, Web Sites & Seminars
Compiled by PDI Global Intelligence Team

Seminars
Websites

1. Practical Seminars & Hands-On Workshops

2. Innovation Case Studies

• Alain Martin: Paradigm-Incubation Research
  Applicable to Major Innovations in Economics, Science, Law and Major Government Policies
  
  
• Compressed Air Cars - France
  
  From Black Oil to Green Future with MDI Air car
  A car that runs on compressed air
  Roger Harrabin (BBC): Five-seat concept car runs on air
  Jim Ostroff (Yahoo Finance): Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?
  A car that runs 200 miles on compressed air.
  Air Car by Guy Negre on CNN
  Air Car Compressed Air Vehicle by Guy Negre - CNN Glen Beck
  

  France's Moteur Développement International engineered two economical and virtually pollution-free cars (The OneCAT and MiniCAT) that run on 4500 psi compressed air stored in 90m3 carbon-fibre tanks built into the chassis. The light-weight fibreglass-tubular body is the product of aerospace technology. The engine injection is similar to combustion engines with decompressed air pushing the pistons to create movement. The air conditioning system makes use of the expelled zero-degree cold clean air. A quiet and ultralight electric system uses a small radio signal. No keys: car reads an access card from user pocket. Instead of speed gauges, a small computer displays the speed and engine revolutions and offers countless connections options (internet, GPS navigation, GSM phone, traffic and emergency tracking, voice recognition). The oil change is extended to 50,000 km due to the absence of both combustion and pollution. A new seatbelt system anchors both sides of the belt to car floor.

  Car cost: $10,000. Refills: $2 in 3 minutes from a service-station compressor or four hours with a small onboard electrical compressor.

  Two versions: (1) Urban driving: single-energy compressed air engines delivering up to 110 km/h, for up to 8 hours of circulation or up to 300 km, twice that of most electric cars; (2) Long drives: twin-energy compressed air plus liquid fuel burner that heats the air to increase the pressure on pistons propelling the car to 200 km/h for up to 800 km.

• Nurturing a Vibrant Culture to Drive Innovation
  Courtesy of M.I.T.
  Terri Kelly, President & CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates recently spoke at MIT Sloan about the unique company culture they have cultivated. Gore encourages belief in the individual, organization around small teams, recognition that people are in the same boat, and that all must "take the long view." Bill Gore "hated policy manuals and bureaucratic ways of telling the organization what to do," says Kelly. In practice, this means, among other things, that employees are equals (associates) who decide what projects to work on based on "their passion," says Kelly. Watch the video
  
  
  

2. Innovation and Creativity: Web References

• Psychology-based Research on Engineering Innovation: State of the Art and Future Needs, Kris Wood & Jon Cagan
  NSF CMMI Sponsored Workshop Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation
  
  
• The Prevalence of User Innovation and Free Innovation Transfers: Implications for Statistical Indicators and Innovation Policy
  Courtesy of M.I.T.
  In this working paper, Professor Eric von Hippel takes a look at how statistical indicators have not kept pace with innovation research. "Today, it is well understood that many industrial and consumer products are developed by users, and that many innovations developed at private cost are freely shared. New statistical indicators will empower policymakers to take advantage of the latest research findings in their innovation policy making, and will enable them to benefit from improved measurement of resulting policy impacts. Read more
  
  
• GENI: Catalyzing Network Research
  Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking, NSF Workshop Report by Larry Peterson, Princeton University
  
  
• Measuring Eco-Innovation
  Making Europe more competitive and sustainable
  
  
• World Innovation Forum, Sponsored by M.I.T.
  Join us in New York City May 5-6 for the World Innovation Forum. Speakers include Clayton Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan, Fred Krupp, Dan Ariely, CK Prahalad, and Paul Saffo. Read more
  
  
• Clean-Slate Internet Reinvention Initiative
  Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking, NSF Workshop Report
  
  
• The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Workshop
  Presented NASA Southeeast regional technology transfer conference. Contributors: NASA, Georgia SBDC Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, South Carolina Technology Aliance, Needle & Rosenberg and SBTDC
  
  
• Transferring Innovation Across Groups in Organizations: Evidence from the Field and the Laboratory
  National Science Foundation Innovation and Discovery Workshop led by Linda Argote, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• Online Learning Portal from The Open University and the BBC
  This learning portal features the history of some of the greatest discoveries and innovations of all times in mathematics, biology, medicine, computer sciences and astronomy, among others.