Six hot innovation trends — from innovationexcellence.com by Robert Tucker

Excerpt:

  1. Startups are overtaking R&D as the key source of new ideas
  2. Open innovation is going mainstream
  3. Innovation is becoming everybody’s business
  4. The “sharing economy” is unstoppable
    The hotelier that will soon overtake Hilton and InterContinental to become the world’s largest lodging chain doesn’t own a single room. AirBnb, based in San Francisco, is a website which enables homeowners in 192 countries to rent out their spare rooms or vacant homes or apartments to travelers.
  5. The rise of the CINO
  6. Crowdsourcing will continue to gain clout in large organizations