In an interview about his latest book, The Innovators, Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson said the word has “been drained of much of its meaning” because it’s been so overused. So what does ...

When delving deeper to understand an organisation’s level of innovation maturity, a typical comment we hear is an exasperated: “You know, I don’t think our people really know what innovation is all ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

Innovation. Every company wants it. Entire books have been written about it. Scores of business consultants make their living off it. And the press are always applying it as a label to whatever ...

Innovation is hard to define. Is it one major breakthrough that can change the world? Is it a novel product that meets the needs of a mass audience? Is it just something cool? We know something is ...

“For better or worse, the word ‘innovation’ has come to represent so much that it seems to have lost most of its meaning,” says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate, a company that helps brands create ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

When asked to define the legal definition for obscenity, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously quipped “I know it when I see it.” For most of us the same applies to a working definition for ...

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “What is Disruptive Innovation?” ...