Push from Intel CEO for more funding in Technology and Education.

"Craig Barrett of Intel said the $20 billion the U.S. annually spends on farm subsidies should be spent on education and technology. He asked, "What do you think the industry of the 21st century is going to be? Agriculture?" Read the article

Oslo Manual on Innovation

Detailed report from EC on innovation process

US Priorities in R&D Funding

Presentation of Kei Koizumi to AAAS

Innovation through peer production

Newsweek article highlights the role of freely shared information in R&D.

"The BIOS Initiative, recently launched by Cambia, an Australian nonprofit, aims to make publicly available an alternative technology to the patented method of inserting a gene into a plant. (People are free to patent any resulting discoveries.) A Web site called BioForge.net, modeled after SourceForge.net in software, will be a clearinghouse for open biology projects"

Article also quotes Eric von Hippel who is MIT's head of innovation and entrepreneurship and have been writing on user-lead innovation.