​There are a multitude of extraordinary activites, projects and marketplaces out there, that can convey how creativity can be unleashed in your personal or professional life, and that illustrate best practices. Get ready to be inspired by the below concepts, ideas and platforms. 

 

 

MORE ON DESIGN THINKING

 

• Service Design Thinking | A contemporary approach for service innovation

• Design & Thinking documentary | Exploring the idea of 'design thinking'

• The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm | Book by Tom Kelley

• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization | Book by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman

 

 

LEARNING & RESEARCH

 

• Coursera.org |  Education company that partners with top universities and organizations to offer courses online for free

• Academic Earth | Free online courses from the world’s top scholars

• Ted Talks |Inspiring talks by leaders from all around the world

• Khan Academy | A free world-class education for anyone anywhere

• MIT Open Courseware | Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds

• PLoS | Public Library of Science – Open access for academic publications

• Wikipedia | The Free Encyclopedia

• ResearchGate | Connect with researchers, make your work visible and stay current

• Mendeley | It’s time to change the way we do research

 

 

BUSINESS

 

• Ashoka Globalizer | Discover the world's most exciting innovations

• Business Model Generation | Structure and develop innovative business models

• Canvanizer | Collaborative Service and Business Model Design Tool

• Coworking | Shared work space for professionals and digital natives

• Crowdsourcing | Outsourcing of tasks to external communities

• FabLab | Open high-tech factory for everybody

• Fiverr.com | Global marketplace for $5 projects

• Free Software Foundation | Advance Software Freedom

• unconference | Participant-driven open space meeting

 

 

INNOVATION

 

• Dell IdeaStorm | IdeaStorm can help take your idea and turn it into reality

• Odesk | Changing how the world works

• Open Source | Value creation with collaborative development and external expertise

• Global Service Jam | Build new innovative services within 48 hours

• Innovationskraft.de | Innovation in Germany – Land of Ideas

• Innocentive | Where the world innovates

• Pretotyping Manifesto | Make sure you build the right 'it' before building it right

• Global Ignite | Enlighten us, but make it quick

 

 

FUNDING

 

• Kickstarter | Fund and follow creativity

• IndieGoGo | The world's funding platform

• StartNext | Popular German crowdfunding platform

 

 

BLOGS

 

• Official Blog of Google | Unleashing creativity in Google’s CSI:Lab

• Metacool | Thoughts on the art & science of bringing cool stuff to life

 

 

 

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