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20 most influential innovation blogs to follow in 2018

Hello, innovation lovers! Right now if you google innovation blogs and magazines you will have a thousand results and every year it becomes harder and harder to know who’s insights and advice are worth your attention. At the same time it is extremely important to stay on the cutting edge of innovation insight, ideas, products and techniques, therefore we decided to analyze all these innovation blogs for you and come up with top 20 of the current year.

After days of research, analysis, and voting, I am proud to share with you the most influential ones, taking into account: RSS, Engagement rate, pageviews, domain authority, content quality, authors, etc. So, here you have them, list of the best innovation blogs by the world’s most influential innovation bloggers and authors.

 

20 most influential innovation blogs and experts you need to follow in 2018

 

1. InnovationManagement

The first one on the list of top innovation blogs is InnovationManagement.se, which evolved from an online magazine with an audience based mostly in Western Europe to an online resource and learning center with an impressive growing global audience. Besides that, IM has collaborated with educational institutions and industry leaders on numerous side-projects such as research, reports, training and forums. Their mission is to provide relevant, inspiring and actionable knowledge to businesses and individuals looking to increase their innovation capabilities.In this blog you may find best practices, tools and related resources among innovation practitioners and professionals. It is a really great blog if you are interested in latest cutting-edge approaches to innovation challenges.

 

2. Innovation excellence

Innovation Excellence is the online home of the global innovation community, with thousands of members from over 175 countries – thought leaders, executives, practitioners, consultants, vendors, and academia representing all sectors and industries. In this blog you can find resources, best practices and proven answers for achieving innovation excellence.

 

3. Entrepreneur innovation news

Here you may find latest news, videos, and discussion topics on innovation. Leading entrepreneurs share their experience, ideas and case studies. If you own a business or you are planning to start one and you want to do something new and cool, you absolutely need to check this blog.

 

4. Board of innovation

In Board of Innovation you may find interesting articles and case studies where you can learn how corporates can innovate like startups using made-to-measure innovation tools. Following this blog you will have a chance to discover inside tips and 100 innovation resources from innovation consultants and entrepreneurs.

 

5.  Innocentive

In this blog, you will find innovation insights, best practices and case studies from the global leaders in challenge-driven innovation.  

 

6. Inventhelp

The inventhelp blog focuses on covering innovation topics and educating inventors in every stage of the invention process. Here you may find topics covering innovation prototyping, patenting, manufacturing, licensing, pitching, public relations, marketing, and business.

 

7. Google news

Of course, this blog should be on the list, without any doubt. Here you will always find latest comprehensive up-to-date news coverage for innovation, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

 

8. Hype

A blog about innovation management and collaborative innovation. Here you may find articles covering full life-cycle innovation process from ideas to market.

 

9. Innovate UK

In a blog of Innovate UK you can find interesting innovation articles about technology, science and products that will grow the UK economy.

 

10. The Burrus blog

The Burrus Blog features articles from Daniel Burrus, who is considered one of the World’s Leading futurists on Global trends and innovation. To become a successful innovation practitioner, you must understand management theory and practice, but you also need to stay abreast of a quickly changing society. As a world-leading futurist and trend-watcher, Daniel Burrus has a lot to say about innovation.

 

11. Inventors digest

Inventors Digest explores the intersection of business and innovation. This magazine and blog is committed to educate and inspire its global audience of engineers, scientists, students, designers, marketers, mom-and-pop inventors. Here topics range from new inventions on the market to trade show recaps to inspiring personal stories that inspired innovation and bright ideas to improve lives.

 

12. Innovation in practice

This is a great place to get corporate perspective on innovation methods. This blog teaches you how to be a successful innovator, describing the importance of courage and diversity of strategies.

 

13.  Prescouter

The PreScouter Journal is a relavant and informative blog site focused on providing the latest strategies, tactics, and inventions emerging from the current culture of innovation around the world. Also, it is a place where corporate innovation leaders share their data and insights on which to base product development and R&D planning decisions. 

 

14. Innovation stories

Innovation stories is a research project to talk about innovation in the form of comics. Comics allow to present abstract concepts as stories that are easy to connect to real life experiences at daily work. The purpose is to provide professionals a better understanding of innovation management and a critical view of popular practices. Very visual and cool content!

 

15. Innovation feeder

This site is your inspiration and food for brain. It’s packed with innovative global businesses and products.

 

16. Scott Anthony at the Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review is one of the most influential websites in the field of business, management and innovation. Besides authors like Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough and Alexander Osterwalder, there is one author who focuses solely on innovation and digital transformation: Scott Anthony, CEO of Innosight. Many of his articles are accessible for free and represent some of the most forward-looking innovation principles from a CEO’s perspective

 

17. Washingtonpost – innovation

It is Washington post, best authors, leading entrepreneurs and innovation experts share facts about new products and services in the market.

 

18. Apiumhub blog

One of the this blog’s top read category is technology industry trends category. It is all about innovation and disruptive ideas, as well as tips, startups and news in the technology world.

 

19. ** Technology review **

Technology Review focuses on the technology first. Their annual look at 35 outstanding innovators under 35 is a reminder that behind all those innovations are people with dreams, fears, and ambitions. Sometimes they hack away at a problem for years before figuring out a way forward. Sometimes they stumble on a solution they didn’t know they were searching for. These portraits offer a sense of the variety of work being done in technology, and a sense of what’s coming next. Great place to get inspired!

 

20. Harvard Business Review – Innovation

This source is one of the most credible ones. Here you will find articles backed up by a lot of research, studies, and experiences. Here key innovation minds share their innovative methods and case studies.

 

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