The document discusses tools and strategies for collaborative innovation, including: 1) The idSpace project which aims to develop tools and training for distributed, collaborative product innovation. 2) Determinants of innovative thinking like leveraging existing knowledge and anticipating future needs. 3) Collaborative strategies from computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) like brainstorming, mind mapping, and the jigsaw technique. 4) The need for environments like idSpace that contain integrated toolsets to describe ideas, collaborate, and share resources with extensible pedagogical approaches.