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Recently @rachelcoldicutt published a green paper From Hype to Hope: How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone
It gave me an assortment of jumping off points to discuss "innovation", culture change and how to build more spaces like @DoESLiverpool and grow what we're doing there.
http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/distributing_and_democratizing_innovation.html
www.mcqn.netMcFilter: Distributing and Democratizing Innovation
As that blog post was getting a bit long, I also posted a companion piece with some ideas of the sort of stuff funders, councils, etc. could buy rather than "innovation"
"Don't Buy Innovation, Buy Things. Some Suggestions."
http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/dont_buy_innovation_buy_things_some_suggestions.html
www.mcqn.netMcFilter: Don't Buy Innovation, Buy Things. Some Suggestions.