Educore helps organizations face future challenges through user-centered innovation.
Opportunity enrichment for sustainable futures is at the core of this work.
The European Commission is organizing a Living Labs Information Event, to be held in Brussels on Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 10:30-17:30 hrs.
A Living Lab is a user-driven open innovation ecosystem based on a business – citizens – government partnership, which enables users to take an active part in the research, development and innovation process. (more…)
Future CentersThe OpenFutures book Operating System for Future Centers will be available at the beginning of January 2009.
The OpenFutures project examined Future Centers from four perspectives: the organizational, physical, methodological and technological. The insights, stories, knowledge recipes and recommendations are summarized in the book OpenFutures – An Operating System for Future Centers. It is a highly visual document, which provides insights into why organizations create Future Centers, how they are set up, run and renewed, and how they provide value.
This highly visual document, with artwork created especially for the publication, can be ordered as a print-on-demand book through the OpenFutures website: www.Open-futures.net
The Knowledge Forum 2008
The Intellectual Property Week 2008 was held in Tokyo, Japan from November 16-21, 2008. The week was composed of a series of different events around intellectual assets, knowledge innovation and future centers, sponsored by various organisations such as METI (Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), the Knowledge Management Society of Japan, the World Intellectual Capital Initiative, the OECD, and the New Club of Paris. (more…)