I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

Writing goals and plans down on paper and defining them, precisely, help us productively confront what's in our minds and hearts. Chiseled words can help bring clarity and guidance. For that reason, ...

Innovation is hard to define. Is it one major breakthrough that can change the world? Is it a novel product that meets the needs of a mass audience? Is it just something cool? We know something is ...

Innovators and entrepreneurs share a common trait: they are interested in change. Innovators want to create new products and services that respond to change or create change. Entrepreneurs are ...

“For better or worse, the word ‘innovation’ has come to represent so much that it seems to have lost most of its meaning,” says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate, a company that helps brands create ...

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “What is Disruptive Innovation?” ...