As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.

This issue:

• Four Lessons from Y-Combinator’s Fresh Approach to Innovation [Scott Anthony: Innovation Insights]
  Y-Combinator takes as similar approach to supporting innovation as Powering Ideas, the innovation strategy recently published by the Australian Government: make innovation cheap.
• AMPlify09 [BankerVision]
  A nice analysis of possibly the most interesting ideation event in recent history.
• Why innovation is crucial to our survival [Socialutions]
  Albert Einstein observed a world caught up in the madness of a World War and said: “The level of thinking that has created our problems will never prove sufficient to solve them.” He understood the value of innovation. And today we hear a lot about innovation, for some it’s a fad, for others a “buzz” word. To Einstein it was essential.
• The Shift Index [Deloitte Centre for the Edge]
  A world of near-constant disruption is emerging – one in which new ideas, technologies, and extreme events constantly and unexpectedly bear down on businesses. How are successful executives finding their way in this new world?