Six Hot Innovation Trends

The field of innovation is changing rapidly and the Front End of Innovation conference is a platform to learn about the emerging trends. The most significant trends in 2014 are: startups are overtaking R&D as corporations look to buy their new ideas, open innovation is going mainstream, innovation is becoming everyones' business, the rise of the CINO, crowdsourcing gaining clout in large organizations and the sharing economy movement which is unstoppable. The trend of sharing the economy allowed regular people to make money on assets they already own, and the concept of crowdsourcing is one of the hottest methods of tapping customer's knowledge, creativity and insight to further innovation.