Are you in an innovation rut?, Front end of Innovation
Short entry summing up some questions to address in order to keep innovation happening which she gathered from Jim Carroll. She also links to Jim Carroll's blog entry: Led Zeppelin Leadership: How do you innovate when you're dazed and confused ... - which is also a good read.
26 Reasons Why Most Brainstorming Sessions Fail (and what you can do about it), The Heart of Innovation
"Bottom line, most brainstorming sessions don't work. Not because brainstorming, as a process, doesn't work -- but because it's usually done poorly" ... provides a list of common reasons, then a second list of things to do in order to prevent the first list from happening.
Special Interest Group on Predication Markets
A website dedicated to prediction markets.
When Crowdsourcing Fails: Cambrian House Headed to the Deadpool, TechCrunch
Cambrian House is a startup that is built on the value of crowdsourcing who failed to raise enough money to keep going.
Why is Innovation a Competition?, Ellen Domb
This is a look at the BusinessWeek's top 25 Innovation Companies issue. One thing mentioned is: compared to the Fortune 500 list (which has an explicit algorithm to rank companies) the 25 Innovation Companies list is not quite as scientific, leaving a large part of the ranking to the opinions of the people asked.