The 24 Hours of Innovation is a non-stop, online marathon of innovation initiatives around the world. The 24 hours are divided in time slots, each one featuring an exciting innovation initiative. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate in the event by filling in one of the time slots…

Do you want to promote your organization? Promote innovation in general? Live stream a brainstorm? Showcase the latest innovation? Invite us for an innovation audit or visual business modelling session? Do something extremely creative? Feature an innovation award or upcoming event? This is an open invitation to co-create an exciting 24 hours of innovation! Please contact us to participate!

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A lot of crowdsourcing start-ups are successful in building up a large user base. As the initial offer to users is FREE in most start-ups, the important question is how they can add revenue streams to build a sustainable business model. Nick put together an inspirational presentation on 77 ways twitter could make money…

Which one do you favor? Do you have other ideas how twitter could make money?

Together with Nick De Mey, I have just started with a new project: BoardOfInnovation.com. The Board of Innovation will bring together a panel of innovation experts that will comment on newly developed tools, and share their insights in a monthly topical discussion. Our aim is to gather very practical tips and examples around specific concepts as business model innovation, crowdsourcing, and service innovation.

A key aspect is the build-up of a database of existing and innovative business models from across the globe and across industries. By mapping out business models with generic elements, you can make them easily understandable. Our aspiration is to map innovative business models from Zopa, Skype, free newspapers, YouTube, RadioHead… and make the underlying innovation tangible for application in other industries. We hope you will find it useful, suggest new business concepts, co-create a robust modelling approach… Looking forward to it!