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ECCI X: 10th European Conference On Creativity And Innovation

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“ECCI X aims to dissect and reanimate the debate on innovation and creativity”.

“Our two target areas will be to …

•  … focus on the removal of the borders between lab and home, between product and user, and to rethink and recreate the whole dynamics between user, creativity and innovation;

•  … begin the process of dismantling and recreating innovation and creativity as such – and ultimately, to innovate innovation”.

http://www.eccix.org/

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Working and researching directly with users/consumers in a collaborative fashion as well as “lead-user innovation” involving expert users have become popular design research tools in Europe.

Interestingly enough, this kind of best practices happen to be actively promoted by incentives provided by some European governments as well as enabled by initiatives such as i-City for 3G and 4G applications.

Eccix aims to deliver a forum to discuss users roles in creativity and innovation and the implications of the “co-creation” process. Through the year I have already written quite a few posts on the subject and will keep an eye on any news coming from ECCI in the next few days.