Welcome to this tenth edition of eIQ, published by EIRMA to give you an insight into the current thinking of both the membership and the wider innovation community.

This issue looks at one of the most challenging problems facing today's innovation professionals: finding and managing the creative people you need to make both the big breakthroughs that create disruptive innovation, and the continuing stream of simple ideas that are the lifeblood of any research organisation.

Our feature on fostering creativity argues that creativity is much more than ideas generation, and that by recognising this managers can find value in unexpected places throughout their organisations. Continuing the theme, a feature on the new geography of science discusses the state of R&D in China, India and South Korea and whether it represents a threat, an opportunity or a dead end.

Other topics include a feature on benchmarking R&D organisations, drawn from an EIRMA meeting and reflecting the value created when members talk to members. Andrew Dearing's Viewpoint explains his role in shaping the context in which European industrial R&D happens, while Hannu Martikainen of Emtele uses his Viewpoint to argue that it can take an outsider to orchestrate radical change in large organisations.

Our Day in the Life interview meets Michael Gahagan of Lubrizol, who has to balance the demands of corporate R&D and product support in his small team, while our intellectual property update explains how the grant agreements for FP7 projects have evolved from those used for FP6.

In the news, we profile Denmark's innovation landscape, find out what Casimir Award winner Rebecca Ward did with the money, and how Europe plans to build a common market for research. We also report on American attempts to simplify collaboration between industry and academia; celebrate the life of Alexander King, prime mover in the foundation of EIRMA; and look at the Industrial Research Institute's annual healthcheck of US industrial R&D. And don't forget to check out details of Finland's €1m Millennium Prize.

After ten issues, it's interesting to reflect on the changes to what began as Innovation Quarterly and is now eIQ. It started out as a 16-page print publication, physically mailed to members, carrying a mix of news stories, meeting reports, country profiles, regional and sectoral viewpoints, interviews with leading practitioners, and insights into intellectual property, science policy and collaboration issues. After six issues the publication became a website with related PDF files, enhanced with rich links to supporting material held at EIRMA and on the Web. The idea was to make eIQ easy to access, share and refer back to as part of EIRMA's online resources.

Throughout, we've maintained our commitment to the clarity of written and visual presentation that we believe is appropriate for an audience of busy R&D professionals. The shift to online presentation has also enabled us to make it much easier to share EIRMA insights, in the form of linkable text and diagrams that can be referenced or included in your own documents. It is, after all, a mashed-up world out there now.

The eIQ team has its own ideas about how it would like to evolve the publication to make it more useful, accessible and sharable. What do you think? Let us know by sending a mail.