What are the environments that lead to unusual levels of innovation? Steven Johnson shares his quest for places where good ideas are born, also known as “innovative environments”. Are they really individual EUREKA moments or do they come from an architecture of space where people get together from different backgrounds…
Year: 2014
A VIDEO ON COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION: THE ROLE OF THE CONSUMER AND USERS
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…

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…

Corporates Open Innovation Centers
A collaborative dimension Companies now announce “corporate open innovation centers” and insist on the collaborative dimension of the facility : with the local ecosystem, the local authorities, the clients, SMEs, etc. And – amongst others – with technology providers as well. what about before? 20 years ago large companies used…
Revolution in Innovation: a 30 Minutes Video By BFM
Innovation is making its Revolution – BFM Business Documentary Revolution in Innovation BFM business made a documentary (in French) on how Open Innovation is changing how companies, big and small, are doing business today. The documentary features big names like Procter and Gamble who were one of the pioneering companies…

Open Innovation in China: Transitioning From Copycat to an Innovate Hub
A challenging technology China’s own technology companies are now challenging market leaders and setting trends in telecommunications, mobile devices and online services. Companies like Seeed Studio, a global leader in open hardware innovation, has transformed into a new model of hardware innovation offering hardware kits to makers and offering personalized…
Webinar: The Top 8 Implications of Open Innovation In Your Company
Webinar Agenda The Top 8 Implications of Open Innovation in your Organisation Thursday April 24 5:30 – 6:15pm (UTC+01:00) Join usProfile of Host : Jean-Louis Liévin The president and co-founder of idexlab, an open innovation platform that can automate intermediation between enterprises and experts. Enterprises of any size can use…