Edward S.

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Tweet map from Cork Dublin and Belfast tells stories of the week

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 11:50 am
Bit of regional variation today that tells the story of the week really.Belfast and Dublin have lots of tweets about Thierry HenryDublin mentions the floods but look at Cork Flooding emergency destroy...
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Innovation training special offer

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 4:44 am
Special post!!!!Thinking about Innovation training? Great offer on Innovation training in DecemberKeep reading for the Special discount offer exclusive to InnovationChef… If you have been think...
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Got something Innovative happening in December?

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 4:22 am
If you have something related to Innovation, Creativity or entreprenuership happening in Ireland or something you want to shout about just let me know and I’ll put the semi regular list togethe ...
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DIY Inventions the Chicken Plucker

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:16 pm
Saw this and was quite amazed really.You can apparently make your own!
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Very Odd as Microsoft try to patent Sparklines

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 8:21 pm
What are sparklines? Sparklines come from the Edward Tufte book Beautiful Evidence. It’s a great book and well worth checking out. (I was recommended his book The Visual Display of Quantitative ...
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Venture Capitalist & Wikipedia founder lectures

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 4:22 am
Some interesting lectures in Trinity next week. Tim Draper one of the best venture capitalist in Silicon Valley – he’s famous for his investments in Skype,
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Return on Imagination

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 10:42 am
As we have been talking a lot about Innovation recently thought this could be fun. ROI: Return On Imagination View more presentations from Mitc Ditkoff.
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Tuam transforms retail

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 10:20 am
Tuam, the County Galway Town famous for High Crosses and The Saw Doctors could soon be making headlines as the first City in Europe to have commercially deployed Near Field Communications. Tuam Retai...
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Trying out something

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 9:00 pm
myLot User Profile
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Nokia's Vision of the Future

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 7:21 pm

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Irish Expert Group recommendations on Innovation and Creativity

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 6:59 pm
Forfás (Ireland’s national policy advisory body for enterprise and science) has just published a new report called “Skills in Creativity, Design and Innovation” It is 129 pages of d...
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Singing Nanotechnology

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 8:50 am

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List of Irish Innovation Networks

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 2:52 pm
dd yours.
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InnovationChef Labs

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 9:15 pm
There has been a lot of work behind the scenes with a crack group of co-conspirators with the aim of bringing a lot of new ideas and features your way.
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Learning event Generator

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 5:07 pm
This is fun. Use it as an Icebreaker or as an excursion in an Innovation session. My favourite random combination has been this one: Have Fun!
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Made the top 50 in something

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 12:08 pm
Every so often you get a surprise. Innovation Chef is ranked as 41st Top Innovation Blog by the number of pages per visit.Made me smile a little.See here.
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Dilbert is dead – Long live Creativity

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 10:04 am
Interesting essay from Michael Lund over on the Salon blog that is very relevant for anyone in the “knowledge economy”. Is Ireland ready for the next wave of employment and innovation?Dilb...
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Make your own igoogle gadget with RSS

Edward S. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 6:01 am
I am a very happy user of the igoogle page and have loads of alerts and gadgets so I made a very simple InnovationChef gadget.
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Raindrop to conquer the Wave

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 7:41 am
Having spent a bit of time with Google Wave this week I confess I haven’t been fully won over. In small collaborations and in co-creations of documents it comes across as a live Wiki style chat....
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ARTtrust - amazing security solution for prints

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 12:04 pm
Just saw this today but it looks really good. Also a really cool example of voids being used to solve a problem for all the TRIZ guys. ARTtrust is a simple self-certification system, under full contr...
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Irish Innovation Report 'Delivering the Smart Economy" Launched

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 9:33 am
Launched today was the new Science, Technology & Innovation report titled ” Delivering the Smart Economy“  Loads of press material but haven’t got the actual report yet to read....
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100 Posts on InnovationChef

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 5:01 am
Milestone for me and for the blog this week as I posted the 100th post. I have learnt a whole lot about blogging, social media and web2.0 in the process. But the best thing has been all the interact...
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Overcoming barriers to Innovation TRIZ style

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 10:43 am
Nice little video here. I popped it on the Innovation Video page too. While we look mostly at Innovation in Ireland and in Europe this is an interesting view from Australia that prompted a few thought...
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Open Innovation Lecture by Henry Chesbrough in Belfast

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 8:14 am
Heads up for all those interested in Open Innovation in Ireland. Henry Chesbrough is in Belfast next month giving a lecture called “Open Innovation - a New paradigm for R&D”  The gu...
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Solar e-book reader demo from LG?

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 4:40 am
You knew it was coming, it just made too much sense the Solar ebook reader is on it’s way from LG. Demonstrating an ebook sized thin film solar cell on a Sony reader at the International Meeting...
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Startups get the WebsiteSpark

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 1:52 am
Good news for startups. Microsoft are launching WebsiteSpark in Ireland next week. The Guinness Storehouse plays host next Tuesday, October the 20th, from 7:00PM as web designers, developers, student...
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Personal Nuclear Device

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 11:28 am
One million times as powerful as a standard battery here comes the Nuclear powered battery. Researchers from the University of Missouri have demonstrated a penny-sized “nuclear battery” ...
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What does Bill Gates Believe

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 1:01 am
The brillant this i believe project has a podcast from Mr. Bill Gates. One of the habits that I picked up while living in the USA was listening to National Public Radio (NPR) and their excellent websi...
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30 Dumb Inventions look stylish

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 11:15 am
LIFE magazine has one of those dumb inventions pieces. This one really digs into the archives with inventions from the 1920s on. Absolutely beautiful images mixed with wild ideas. As a sign of times...
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Science Live at the RDS

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 6:10 am
The RDS Science Live Demonstration Lecture series 2009 starts on Monday October 19th. I love any kind of event that gets science out and into the open for teenagers and gets them interested in a pract...
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Most Innovative Website in Ireland 2009

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 4:35 am
Congratulations to Decisions for Heroes which won the Most Innovative Website in Ireland at the recent Irish web Awards. Decisions for Heroes identifies a common set of problems found in emergency ser...
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TRIZ Functional analysis: Total Eclipse of the heart

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 11:18 am
Courtesy of @belleirene a visual representation of the song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” Breaking things down into simple pattern blocks and looking for connections is a core skill of the...
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TESCO - The Innovation Event

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 3:22 am
TESCO, the mighty UK retailer, had a one day, invitation only, event recently. 70 customers spend the day creating new ideas on ways the supermarket could improve their online shopping experience and ...
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Missed some - Innovation Ireland Events

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 11:40 am
I knew about these and they didn’t make the table: Paul Garner of BT Innovate & Design, on Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 12:45 p.m. with the title: Open Innovation in Practice and “Creativit...
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October Innovation Events Diary

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 11:25 am
Here are the top Innovation Events ahppening in Ireland in the first half of October 2009. The big one is InnovationDublin from the 14th - see you there! Date what Where How Much 8th October Ope...
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First Post Using Scribe Fire

Edward S. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 10:43 am
I am trying out ScribeFire as a productivity improvement for my blogging. I am painfully aware that although I manage to be reasonably up to date on Twitter I am late late late on InnovationChef.com...
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New Innovation Video Page

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 5:50 pm
This video gallery will host some of my favourite videos on Innovation. I’ll rotate the content but expect to see Innovation in Ireland, funny inventions, creativity & design videos. I’d like to s...
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Call for Innovation Events in Ireland this October

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 3:55 pm
I will be putting together a list of of the top innovation related events happening in Ireland in the month of October. If you are doing training, having an open day, holding a conference or have som...
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Irish certificate course in Sustainable Design Innovation

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 3:46 pm
Good sounding course from Carlow IT. Anyone interested in sustainability and design soon check it out soon as it is meant to start in September. Looks like you get credit towards a Masters too.
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Dragons Den Success Story

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 5:12 pm
Earlier this year Micheal Connolly went on RTE's Dragons Den with his Innovation. A Self employed animator he came up with the idea of a children's amination kit three years ago. Now after inv...
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September Innovation Events Diary Ireland

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 4:39 pm
Innovation events in Ireland for the rest of the month of September
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NAMA more important that innovation

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 3:09 am
The management of the innovation process is not that weird, esoteric or magical in nature that we should ignore the knowledge out there in favour of spending cash to just to meet an OECD or EU average...
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Special offer on Power Point

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 10:53 am
Special Offer for the readers of Innovation. Go see the new performance of Power Point by The Performance Corporation at a special reduced rate.
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What do we need now

Edward S. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 10:17 am
You may have been turned off or disappointed. You personally might be interested but think you don't have the time or can't take the risk. You might have been influenced along the way to feel ...
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New Poll - When is a good time for…..

Edward S. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 5:38 am
short and simple
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Art/Design wrapped in Business equals Toys

Edward S. posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 2:29 am
This is the guy who invented Furby. I had always seen Furby as some annoying money grabbing TV merchandising thingy but I was wrong. In this presentation Furby is a work of innovation by one individua...
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Standing Room Only?

Edward S. posted an article on - Jul 7, 2009, 1:57 am
Ryanair, the Irish based low cost airline is thinking about introducing “Vertical Seating” on some of it’s planes. By removing four rows, passengers in that area would have stools of...
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Monsters in the Irish Sea

Edward S. posted an article on - Jun 29, 2009, 3:42 pm
The Danish Company Dong Energy have just awarded a significant contract to the UK based SeaJacks company to put their monster ships the Kraken and Leviathon into the Irish Sea to facilitate the instal...
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