Raj Anand Raj Anand

Passionate about Innovation in Social Media.

How Social Media is influencing Innovation inside Companies

The presentation I’m doing today at Cliq Project covers how social media is encouraging innovation. It looks at sites like InnoCentive and MyStarbucksIdea but also Facebook and Twitter as a source of innovation. It also briefly looks at the concept of Government, Industry and Universities (triple helix) causing innovation and how public powered by social [...]

Bootstrapping and Innovation, don’t go together?

We have some fantastic example of high growth businesses, they tend to be in the IT, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, medical research etc. Although just being in these sectors and having an offering which is compelling isn’t good enough.
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Let me explain, I recently read a book which highlighted a company with an innovative product. They launched [...]

Case study of a UK University successfully using Twitter [kwiqq]

Twitter alongside the recession are the two biggest things which officially arrived in the UK at the start of 2009. Some find it hard to quantify Twitter’s value add whilst companies like Dell shouted from roof tops about the success they had with Twitter.
The success of Twitter is not limited to corporations, consultants and start-ups. [...]

Research paper: Developing a typology of youth-led innovation

Recently I was approached by Sussex University research department to briefly contribute to NESTA funded research paper on ‘Youth-led Innovation’. It is currently in its draft phase and available on NESTA’s Website.
I find the outcome (diagram) from the research paper absolutely fascinating:

Download it:
Developing a typology of youth-led innovation (PDF)

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Latest Macbook Wheel – 45 minutes to type an email ?

This is hilarious ! Someone has too much time (and money) to waste

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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