Telaric Ideas
- Innovation and intellectual property firm offering patent analysis services and consulting services. Located in Mequon, WI.
- http://www.telaricideas.com/

InformationWeek - Georgia-Pacific Uses Innovation Brainstorming Tool
- Georgia-Pacific uses idea management software to generate ideas for new products and improved processes, and has saved the company millions of dollars.
- http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159904875&tid=5979

BRINQ - Innovation & Toys from the Brink of the World
- Seeks to enable affordable local invention of toys in the developing world and deploys a business system to propagate the most innovative creations to the rest of a developing market and for licensing back in the developed world.
- http://www.brinq.com/workshop/

What is Idea Management ? - CMO Magazine
- An excellent primer on idea management explaining what it is, how it can help you, and how to get started
- http://www.cmomagazine.com/read/120104/idea-management.html

How Their Garden Grows - CFO IT - Winter 2004 Issue - CFO.com
- WR Grace talks about how they've generated new product ideas over the last year that have the potential to achieve sales of $6 million.
- http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3373514?f=advancesearch

Innovation Bootcamp
- Offers information on seminars, brochures, faculty, and contacts.
- http://www.innovationbootcamp.com

BPM Helps Grace Chemical Innovate - eWeek
- Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division
- http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1721053,00.asp

InnovateEurope 2005
- Provides information on this innovation conference to be held in London, England. Offers list of speakers, quotes, testimonials, and contacts.
- http://www.innovateeurope.com/

CREATEProject
- web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
- http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/

BMW Virtual Innovation Agency
- BMW's "Virtual Innovation Agency" gathers feedback and ideas from outside sources - complete with legal waivers and codes of conduct to protect themselves. Of particular note is their document concerning the "evaluation of unprotected ideas
- http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/nav/index.html?http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/7_innovation/7_innovation.shtml?7_0

Winston Brill - Creativity Comments
- Winston Brill's work is frequently quoted now - and his e-newsletter, the Monthly Mentor is a publication that frequently contains some great nuggets of wisdom on the topics of creativity, the value of ideas, and other innovation related topics.
- http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/comments/comments.html

IdeaFlow
- Creativity and Innovation blog offers white papers and links to related sites.
- http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/

Directives Enterprises
- Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services.
- http://www.directives.com.au

Creative Advantage
- Offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development.
- http://www.creativeadvantage.com

InnoTown Innovation & Design Conference
- Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world.
- http://www.innotown.org

The Innovation Resource Consulting Group
- Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen.
- http://www.innovationresource.com

Innovation Convergence 2004
- Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that suppor
- http://www.iirusa.com/convergence

Bringing Ideas to Life: Seven Principles for Pulling Together
- Bring an idea to life by developing the idea and enhancing relationships with coworkers simultaneously. By Rick Maurer, in CEO Refresher.
- http://www.refresher.com/!rmideas.html

C. W. Prather & Associates
- A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere.
- http://www.bottomlineinnovation.com/

InnovationTools
- A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
- http://www.innovationtools.com

Corporate Innovation Blog
- A daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered.
- http://imaginatikresearch.blogspot.com/

Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering"
- Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "
- http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020321S0009

Product Development and Management Association
- Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services
- http://www.pdma.org

Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity
- The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation
- http://www.thinksmart.com/

Imaginatik
- Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.
- http://www.imaginatik.com