Some nice ideas about innovation...

This presentation, though a bit bright :-) has some good content. The rate of technology adoption is a handy (slide 17) but the idea that innovation is networking is cool.

From technology package delivery
to
innovation package delivery

you can take on the whole process, not just the technology. First see the technology at work in context and then make it work for you through partnership, colaboration or brokering. The demise of the industrial research lab (IRL) is also interesting.