The first step to innovation success, Jeffrey Phillips
This is an interesting entry on the number one thing a company needs to do if it really wants to be more innovate.  Any guess as to what that is?  … According to Jeffrey it is to: make someone accountable.  Makes some sense, if no one is going to be accountable for it and measured on it, but everyone is responsible for being more “innovative” … the reality is – very little, if any, is really going to happen.  A good quote from the entry:

The challenge with innovation is that it is usually an abstract concept, difficult to measure or manage, and distributed throughout the organization, so no one person can reasonably be responsible for innovation success. This is yet another case of something everyone wants, but no one is responsible for. When you add in the fact that innovation is risky, and represents significant change to the status quo, then you can begin to realize how difficult it is to task one person with the job, and hold them accountable for innovation across the business.

What Goes Into An Innovation Assessment Anyway …, Paul Williams
Ever wonder how innovative your company is?  In this short entry, Paul describes the contents of what an Innovation Assessment might contain.  Seems to be a good place to start if you want to do your own evaluation.

Entrepreneurship versus innovation, Jennifer at Front End of Innovation
This is a pointer to a recent article in Forbes: India’s Innovation Gap, by Sramana Mitra.  A good article and worth reading.  A quote that I found interesting from the Forbes’ article:

… He understands the innovation process and acknowledges that the eco-system is stalling. "To build a product, you need to have either easy access to customers or many members in the team who all have deep shared knowledge of the customer pain," Ashish Gupta says. …