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The need for involving larger numbers of stakeholders in innovation fostering activities has become abundantly clear in recent years as organisations have recognised the value of highly diversified input.

There are two universally accepted sides to the activity-sphere surrounding the fostering of innovation: ‘Frontend Innovation’ and ‘Backend Innovation (BEI)’.

When assessing an organisations capability to foster innovation internally, there are several factors to take into consideration, which can be split into six aspects, across two groupings.

The ‘Innovation Sandbox’ is a relatively new principle, attempting to combine the best of both internal crowdsourcing and open innovation, add further value for organisations, and avoid some of the pitfalls associated with applying those methods in isolation.

Yesterday, Ken Gordan and Toby Bottorf from Continuum were kind enough to facilitate the latest in an ongoing series of #innochat conversations - a twitter based one hour sprint aimed at bringing together thought leadersfrom across the innovation ecosystem with the goal of sharing knowledge and challenging assumptions.