UK Foresight programme: http://www.foresight.gov.uk
Provides a review of the UK government's technology foresight programme.

CBI Innovation Trends Survey: http://www.cbi.org.uk/innovation
A review of the CBI's survey on companies' perceptions of innovation.

OECD Electronic Commerce site: http://www.oecd.org
The OECD site contains a lot of information on innovation and comparative rates of research and development between member countries.

IBM Case Studies: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/plm/?S_CMP=fromswhprelated
This site contains regularly updated case studies on the application of e-commerce and product life cycle management.

Product Development and Management Association (PDMA): http://www.pdma.org/
PDMA's mission is to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products - both new manufactured goods and new services. PDMA has supported research into measuring product development success and trends and best practices in the practice of managing new product development. Summary findings are available at its web site.

Vanderbilt University’s eLab
eLab was founded by Vanderbilt University in 1994 to study the business implications of commercializing the World Wide Web. It has emerged as one of the premiere research centres in the world for the study of Electronic Commerce.
http://ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/

Virtual Society Research Programme
An ESRC funded programme at Oxford University into the sociology of electronic technologies. Useful social sciences links.
http://www.virtualsociety.org.uk/

The Packaging Society
The Packaging Society seeks to serve its membership through training, education and interaction with other members of the industry, providing support and insights to the application of new technologies.
http://www.iom3.org/packaging/