“Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.” These are the words by American scholar Prof. Henry Chesbrough.

Openness is one of the significant keywords in our age. The latest trend on openness has an obvious influence on corporations and government institutions. Open systems and mindsets are defeating closed systems. These themes have been introduced and discussed in the new Megasignals e-book (Q1 2011; see www.megasignals.com). The digital format of Megasignals e-book fits..

A number of key terms and concepts have been grouped together in the recent debate over innovations and technology: knowledge society, information society, network society, informationalism, the Information Age, innovation economy, innovation environments, innovation ecosystems, business ecosystems, living labs, complex systems, autopoiesis, dominant design…

And to continue: KIBS (= Knowledge Intensive Business Services), STI and DUI principles, value networks, the creative economy, the creativ..

Today there are many security risks associated with our organizational decision environments. Typically we can talk about production (or supply side risks) and marketing risks (demand-side risks). In the field of futures studies risks are associated with political systems, economic systems, social systems, technological systems, environmental systems and value changes. The STEEPV framework is a good framework to identify potential security and safety risks. Wild cards and black swans are often..

A society increasingly dependent on technology, networks and innovation will set new demands on its citizens and contemporaries to update their skills. A gap could exist, for example, between people that use information and communication technologies (ICT) in their professions and free time and people who don’t (digital literacy vs. digital illiteracy).

What is the Future of Work? Regarding this issue I was interviewed by Welcome to Finland magazine some months ago (Summer/2010). It seems clear..

Services are increasingly moving towards cooperation between different spheres, which create new synergy, completely new services or significantly improve the convenience of using the existing services.

One of such examples is a new service provided by Estonia's major mobile communications operators in 2010 - audio books in your cell phone. Using the service involves entering the WAP portal with the phone and downloading the desired product in audio format (for a fee). Users can download audio ..