The REINVENTNET Learning Lab

The word innovation is used in various contexts - to describe an individual new product, practice or service, or as a strategic tool supporting a need to do something different. From this latter perspective it can be viewed as a business process, but how does this work?

Innovation in Small Business. Why innovate and what are some of the barriers - a 4 minute video

http://toolkit.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/casevids/14

Organising for Innovation: Combining the efforts of multifunction teams to complete the innovation journey. Innovation Management at Rutgers Business School - a 9 minute video

Innovation and Competitiveness: building an innovative nation - a 19 minute Michael Porter Video

This site was launched in 2012 following two years of experimentation with a developmental facility. The software engine driving it , Moodle (stands for modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment) is being used in more than 60,000 installations around the world. The primary (and intended) use is as an on-line tool providing course content and an interaction space for teachers and students. We have adapted it to provide a kind of sophisticated electronic lab-book supporting secure client and/or researcher interaction in developing content and managing a multiplicity of research projects (courses). A  'course' provides further background on the Learning Lab philosophy . Our primary interest is exploring aspects of the innovation journey illustrated below. An overview of our in-house research focus and outcomes is presented as a separate 'course'.