Writing goals and plans down on paper and defining them, precisely, help us productively confront what's in our minds and hearts. Chiseled words can help bring clarity and guidance. For that reason, ...

In an interview about his latest book, The Innovators, Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson said the word has “been drained of much of its meaning” because it’s been so overused. So what does ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

When delving deeper to understand an organisation’s level of innovation maturity, a typical comment we hear is an exasperated: “You know, I don’t think our people really know what innovation is all ...

“For better or worse, the word ‘innovation’ has come to represent so much that it seems to have lost most of its meaning,” says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate, a company that helps brands create ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

Innovation is hard to define. Is it one major breakthrough that can change the world? Is it a novel product that meets the needs of a mass audience? Is it just something cool? We know something is ...

Why might it be a mistake for a university to prioritize learning innovation? Making an argument against learning innovation requires that we first define what learning innovation is. The challenge is ...

Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational ...