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• Appreciative Inquiry
• Life Based Learning

Websites

Mindmapping in 8 Easy Steps

A simple and straight forward online resource explaining mind mapping. This website has a number of articles on innovation.

How To Avoid Prematurely Killing The Next Big Idea

This short article provides pointers for positively assessing ideas. This website has a number of articles on innovation including building innovative teams.

National Innovation

The National Innovation Council has developed this website to raise awareness of the importance and benefits of innovation and entrepreneurship for young Australians and small to medium enterprises.

InnovationTools

Provides entrepreneurs and innovators with a focused, growing collection of the best resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming.

Innovation Network

A nonprofit organisation working to share planning and evaluation tools. They provide consulting, training, and online tools for nonprofits and funders.

The Innovation Journal

An independent, peer-reviewed, Internet-based journal devoted to sharing ideas and discussing public sector innovation. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, book reviews, and news, and keeps you up to date on upcoming seminars, publications, and other sites.

Publications

RUSSELL, Merrick 1998, Nine strategies for innovation

A PDF handout that looks at product innovation has some useful activities for students.

Managing and Facilitating Innovation

A power point presentation from the Business School, University of Greenwich. Good quotes and overview.

Research

CALLAN, V 2004, Building innovative vocational education and training organisations, NCVER

Callan identifies six key characteristics of highly innovative organisations. They create learning cultures which promote innovation as a core organisational capability; employ leaders who are 'failure-tolerant'; identify innovators; reward people who propose innovative ideas; use partnerships and promote innovation through teams. This report analyses how well vocational education and training (VET) providers use these six key characteristics. It finds VET organisations are making good progress but this progress is uneven. To develop innovation further, the author suggests VET organisations need to broaden the range of strategies they are using to promote innovation and offers practical steps to do so.

CURTAIN, R 2004, Vocational education and training, innovation and globalisation, NCVER

This report focuses on the roles of the VET sectors in Finland and Singapore - countries with strong track records in innovation. It contends that a whole-of-government approach supporting a national innovation system could benefit Australia. The report finds the national VET sector is well placed to have a direct role in the diffusion of innovations provided incentives in the form of specific funding are put in place.

DAWE, S 2004, Vocational education and training and innovation: Research readings, NCVER

This collection of research readings explores the role of Australia's VET sector in innovation. Different chapters identify the VET sector's contribution, while other chapters make international comparisons and evaluate components of the national innovation system. The research finds the VET sector has an important role to play in the provision of training for innovative enterprises. VET providers must identify their strengths and build industry partnerships in these areas, which may require working more effectively across disciplines and developing more personalised arrangements for delivery.

FERRIER, F 2005, How can VET systems meet the challenges of innovation and new skill requirements? An exploration of State and Territory initiatives in Australia, Working Paper No. 59, Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University and Australian Centre for Educational Research

This paper explores policies and programs of Australia’s states and territories to support innovation, and to build VET capability to respond to skill needs. The initiatives the states and territories are implementing to ensure VET capability to respond to innovation tend to have two attributes in common. The first is an emphasis on developing partnerships and networks between VET and industries or enterprises to promote a better mutual understanding of the nature of changing skill needs so as to establish suitable training as soon as it is needed. The second is the provision of support for VET providers to develop new resources, products and services to meet changing skill needs. The report concludes that a greater connection between VET and industry policy and closer cross state collaboration will lead to greater VET involvement in innovation.

PICKERSGILL, R 2005, Dimensions of innovation: Some historical perspectives on vocational education and training and innovation in Australia - A discussion paper, NCVER

In this paper Pickersgill states that the Australian system of innovation fits the model of incremental innovation and diffusion of technical knowledge. It concludes that the diffusion of knowledge and the development of a workforce capable of developing innovative solutions has long been a function of VET organisations in Australia.

PICKERSGILL, R & Edwards, D 2005, The contribution of VET to innovation in regional industry, AVETRA Paper

TONER, P, Marceau, J, Hall, R & Considine, G 2004, Innovation agents: Vocational education and training skills and innovation in Australian industries and firms, NCVER

This study examines the role of VET and occupations in innovative industries and firms. The authors find VET is important to the diffusion of knowledge and skills across a range of occupations. The report highlights that people in vocational occupations are among the principal sources of ideas for technological innovation. Further, innovative firms reported a high level of satisfaction with public and private training.

See Also

Embedding innovation - we're not alone! Article, eZine December 2007

Embedding Innovation - 'chasms' as barriers and oppurtunities Article, eZine May 2008

 

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