This is what their website states on the home page:

“MoreInspiration gathers innovations in products and technologies from all possible sectors and domains. These are classified according to the CREAX innovation methodology and will inspire to innovate your product or technology.”

They also have a blog.
They currently have 806 innovations listed on their website and from the few that I read in detail – they are interesting and intriguing. Who knows what ideas you’ll get if you browse through these innovations – maybe you’ll solve one of your own problems/issues!

I have also now managed to launch my personal blog and website at www.nainaredhu.com where the main aim is to create awareness about my art [ which would fall under the category of Indian contemporary art since I'm in India ] and hopefully create a market for the same.

“Basically, everyone said we were crazy,” recalls Zeitz (CEO of Puma). “But if you want to change the industry and do something completely new and innovate, research is a bad tool because all you will get fed back is perception today and not tomorrow.”

“I always describe working for Puma as, ‘They give you all the rope in the world to hang yourself with,’” chuckles Bertone (Brand Director of Puma). “Your job? Don’t hang yourself.”

Paula Scher : When you’re feeling stale, she says, the best thing you can do to shake things up is to “look at what you’ve been doing for the past five years–and stop. The thing that’s most to be feared is doing the same thing over and over again.”

Most organizations, she says, rely on a process of checks and balances to ensure that the design adheres to some particular corporate strategy–that’s the language MBAs understand. Trouble is, graphic design is inherently subjective. Who can say that one font is quantifiably better than another, or that one shade of Pantone green will lead inevitably to the destruction of your brand? Without a passionate advocate, a strong initial design may be nibbled away by bureaucrats, each eager to prove his worth with a tweak here and a nip there. Scher’s ability to persuade, she realized, rested on two things: “I would have to be perceived, first, as an absolute authority, and second, as the most powerful person to approach about design.

The above from the latest version of FastCompany articles (1) on Puma, (2) on Paula Scher and (3) on Ziba Design.

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A new resource for innovation has come up by way of the InnovateForum. It’s worth a look as it compiles news and articles and blogs from various sources and brings it under one web page.

This is with reference to an article on the Forbes.com website.

The article starts with:

More than half of the money spent on innovation is wasted. At least, that’s the claim author and management consultant Geoffrey Moore makes in his book, Dealing With Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution.

The next paragraph puts the article more in perspective:

If the corporate world has a Holy Grail, it’s innovation. Unfortunately, much of the current effort and expense isn’t fully focused, says Moore. Instead of concentrating on a few bold ideas that could revolutionize their companies, most firms put their resources in too many places, often creating product enhancements that don’t actually enhance the bottom line.

So they’re talking about specifically product innovation in companies? But innovation doesn’t mean only getting ideas about products to the surface, it also means investing in resources that allow employees and the company to grow because of ideas related to the growth of the company – whether that’s related to product development or not is a different issue. I would say that money spent to just bring awareness about innovation would be money extremely well spent.

The article also goes into talk briefly about “outsourcing innovation”, which seems like a much debated topic currently.