Contest Winner - The Economist's March Event

Through yesterday at midnight GMT we ran a contest for a chance to win a free ticket ($1,500 value) to The Economist's event - "Innovation Fresh Thinking For the Ideas Economy" at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley on March 23-24, 2010.

There will be a lot of great, top-flight speakers at this event, including a couple of new additions:

• Christina Romer, Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisers


• Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Venture Management

Contestants filled in the blank in the following statement on our LinkedIn or Facebook discussion:

• When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about ______________.

Congratulations to the winner - Rick Smyers!

Please contact us ASAP with your e-mail address to claim your prize. Failure to do so before midnight GMT on March 4, 2010 will result in the ticket being awarded to the alternate - Melinda Lockhart!

The winner was chosen at random by my daughter, but here are my five favorite quotes:

1. "When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about philanthropy." - Jenn Lew Goldstone


2. "When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about how to cross the enormous bridge from creating an idea to the challenges of implementing a new idea and gaining acceptance from the people at large." - Melinda Lockhart


3. "When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about vision building. Innovative ideas are no longer hard to find. However, people who can build vision are the ones creating blue oceans and making them a reality. We don't need more ideas....we need more vision builders." - Adam Dole


4. "When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about the desperate need to clean up the current knowledge - of its fallacies and redundancies and help minimize the time wasted on unvalidated verbose" - Jeyaseelan J


5. "When it comes to innovation, I wish somebody would write about what it's necessary for every person start living consciously and caring for every human being. What about innovating on our way of living..." - Pedro Norte

As an added value for our loyal Blogging Innovation readers, we have negotiated a $150 discount when you register using our discount code - "BLINN" - register now.

We hope to see you there!


EDITOR'S NOTE: Winner is still responsible for all travel costs and the ticket is granted at The Economist's discretion not ours. There is only ONE (1) ticket up for grabs in this contest and it will be awarded to ONE (1) winner.


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Braden Kelley is the editor of Blogging Innovation and founder of Business Strategy Innovation, a consultancy focusing on innovation and marketing strategy. Braden is also @innovate on Twitter.

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