Innovations of Football Stadiums during the World Cup (2014)
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Innovations of Football Stadiums during the World Cup (2014)

Innovations of Football Stadiums The New Technologies For those of you who we were not interested in the #WC2014 or were travelling to the moon, may be you have not noticed the Innovations of football stadiums this year. They were a few, detailed in a nice article by the Washington…

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When Open Innovation breaks computing limits and ROI
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When Open Innovation breaks computing limits and ROI

Open Innovation ROI in medical Science Xerox Realbusiness blog published a stunning article yesterday on the Open Innovation ROI in medical science. They relate how the Harvard Medical School (HMS) used Open Innovation and a developpers’ contest to dramatically improve gene sequencing performance. The MegaBLAST algorithm from the National Center of…

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Collaborative innovation and societal challenges
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Collaborative innovation and societal challenges

A new way to involve employees Since the very first idea box, collaborative innovation practice has come a long way and many initiatives are being developed. Nowadays, businesses do not hesitate to open their innovation strategy to respond better to company challenges. Innovation has become an opportunity to mobilize collective…

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Open Innovation barriers
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Open Innovation barriers

Interview with Anders Hjalmarsson Interview with Anders Hjalmarsson of Viktoria Swedish ICT, Götegorg, Sweden. Author of “Beyond Innovation contest: a framework of barriers to open innovation of digital services” Q: Hello Anders, thank you for your time today. We would like to discuss the main findings of your work related…

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Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry
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Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry

>>Read also: The booming of Open Innovation and Ideation PlatformsOpen Innovation & Automotive   Open Innovation in the French Automotive Industry by Romaric Servajean-hilst, is an interesting study published at the European Academy of Management EURAM 2014 and that can be read here.   With an ethnographic approach, the author shows that “the…

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The Open Source Revolution has happened
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The Open Source Revolution has happened

Open Source & Open Innovation The Open Forum Academy has just released “Thoughts on Open Innovation” a free book including ten articles touching various aspects of Open Innovation and Open source.  In this post I would like to share my understanding and own thoughts regarding the article from Andrew Updegrove “”Openness” and…

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Open Innovation from the 18th century
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Open Innovation from the 18th century

Ancient forms of Open Innovation A refreshing article was posted on July 1st on the World Industrial Reporter website in relation with an earlier article by Innovation Excellence. It mentions Open Innovations from… the 19th century ! And it is true that the Marine Chronometer was invented by John Harrison in…

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A Success Story of an Open Innovation Platform
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A Success Story of an Open Innovation Platform

The interview of Justo Puerto Albandoz Open innovation platforms  are a great success when it comes to bringing experts and companies together so that they can innovate. We got the opportunity to interview Justo Puerto Albandoz , a professor of operations research at the University of Seville, Spain, who has…

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Is car safety too expensive ?
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Is car safety too expensive ?

Is car safety too expensive ? General Motors has announced the recall of more than 2 million vehicles for safety reasons. This brings the total number of cars recalled by the manufacturer to more than 13 million in the United States in the past year, more than the total production…

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Would Tetris be useful for more than to kill time ?
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Would Tetris be useful for more than to kill time ?

An Unsuspected Usefulness Tetris was launched by a Russian scientist in 1984. 30 years later, 70 million games were sold, Tetris has been downloaded to 130 million mobile phones and over one billion people have tried it (3 million per day on facebook some says) ! Yet it is so…

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Internet from Space
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Internet from Space

Google wants to deploy hundreds of satellites There is much talk about internet from space, or say by satellite, since Google announced plans to deploy hundreds of satellites worth 1b$ to provide fast internet access to uncovered areas. Many research focuses on the internet from space already: what telecommunication protocols,…

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Implementing swifter Open Innovation thanks to the C-K design theory PART 1
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Implementing swifter Open Innovation thanks to the C-K design theory PART 1

The C-K Design Theory The C-K design theory is a theory of reasoning in design, that aims to provide a single yet domain-independent approach to innovators seeking to streamline their innovation workflows. It builds on classical design theories, then goes beyond problem-solving by stimulating truly innovative design. This is due…

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