“Why bother?” It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer ...read more

The first three Angolan domestic appliances assembling lines, owned by INOVIA company were inaugurated on Friday in the Special Economic Zone, in Viana, Luanda. ...read more

For procurement, delivering innovation is route to greater value and recognition. But what are we really talking about when you get past the buzzword? In procurement, we all love to talk about innovation. It’s sexy and enticing because everyone ...read more

The development community's narrow focus on top-down innovation is obscuring the importance of other areas - such as user-led innovation - as useful inputs to the innovation process, says a leader of the UN Development Programme's innovation team ...read more

In an effort to drive African-led development, the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the call for entries for the 2014 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) on local innovations and entrepreneurships. The African challenge for entrepreneurs ...read more

The Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom hosted the first-ever dialogue between government, business, academia, civil society and members of the Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology to enhance the Science Technology and Innovation ...read more

It is my experience that open innovation is going to affect all industries, but some more than others, and some sooner than others. Overall, I see four external factors that matter here: 1) cycle time for products/services development, 2) money and 3 ...read more

Is it possible for a company to over-innovate? The simple answer is “Yes”. Internal issues have a lot to do with the thickness of the idea and innovation pipeline within your company. You might have a very strong idea generation process (the ...read more