The Role of the Consumers and Users Charles Leadbeater, a researcher at the London think tank Demos, gave an insightful talk at TED TALK on collaborative innovation and the role of the consumers in it. He starts his talk by giving an example of how the mountain bike, which is now around a 58…
Month: May 2014
The booming of Open Innovation and Ideation Platforms
From Crowdsourcing of ideas to Solutions Search. Ideation platforms and open innovation platforms can respond quickly and effectively to a problem or to generation of new ideas through the reuse of knowledge or external ideas. The time saving and new opportunities brought by this approach attracts more and more companies.…
General Mills : More Open Innovation Products
The Open Innovation Products from General Mills While most of you may be familiar with the products such as Yoplait greek 100, natural valley protein bar, fiber one 90- calories brownies, and the recently released Fiber One Soft-Baked Cookies, what you may not have know was that these products are…
A Transatlantic Open Innovation Platform
The Open Innovation Club PRIME and the French Consulate in San Francisco came together to create an ‘open innovation club’ , a collection of large French and American companies aimed at fostering open innovation across all stake holders in the innovation ecosystem through an open innovation platform: large companies, start-ups, research…
Webinar: 8 Implications of Open Innovation
The Top 8 Implications of Open Innovation in Your Company The president and co- founder of ideXlab, an open innovation platform that automates intermediation between experts and enterprises, shares the experiences encountered by companies wanting to implement open innovation since ideXlab is in constant dialogue with them and explains the…
Open innovation and intellectual property rights: contradiction and complementation*
Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights management have long been presented as contradictory conceptions of innovation. We discuss here the apparent contradiction around Innovation Property but show that IPRs, well managed, allow to conduct the most effective Open Innovation projects. * Complementation refers to two organisms having muted on different…
Collaborative Innovation: Do we Collaborate or Cooperate?
Difference between “collaboration” and “cooperation” The past couple of years have seen the concept of Open Innovation evolve in specific ways. With aspects like collaborative innovation being born today, enterprises have adopted these new trends and taken full advantage of them. Since ancient times, man has always realized that working…