THE WHY FACTOR
“WE OPEN INNOVATION” community is dedicated to spreading the word about open innovation. We believe that this practice is far from established in today’s world and it is time to enable companies to innovate better and faster, facilitate ideas and knowledge sharing across industries.
“WE OPEN INNOVATION” is a community created by ideXlab, a start-up company specialized in open innovation that helps companies , small or big , find the best experts from anywhere in the world, regardless of industry. Using an ultra-performant search engine platform, ideXlab is able to provide solutions to the technical, scientific or marketing challenges that companies are facing.
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THE TEAM
Our super powers come from the strong team with year of experiences in different domains:
The forefathers
Jean-Louis Liévin, CEO, who has 20 years of executive experience in Telecommunications companies and was the Director of Research and Innovation for BT.
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Pierre Bonnard, CTO, has worked for over 20 years in R&D business units in the Software, Telecommunication and Information Processing fields.
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The muscle behind the scene
Nouha Omrane, Research and Development Engineer, is a PhD holder in Computing and Knowledge Engineering with a core interests in data mining and processing. Prior to working for ideXlab, she has been involved in a number of EU, industrial and international projects.
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/ /@ ideXlab / / LinkedIn
Amir Laïs, Developer, has a Master degree in Computing and Embedded Systems with core interests in data processing and system architecture for the intermediation platform applied to Open Innovation.
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/ /@ ideXlab / / LinkedIn
Julien Yakhni joined ideXlab in 2012 as a Software Developer and his core interests are in web design and workflow applications for intermediation platforms applied to Open Innovation.
Prior to ideXlab, he developed an extensive experience in various industries: Oger international, infoSysta, Ogero, Innovtel, Tecware int.
He holds an Engineering degree from the ISEN and a BA in ICT from the Lebanese university.
Expert in multiple languages and environments such as PHP7, C++, C#, HTML5, jQuery, Flash, Symfony, laravel, vuejs, MySQL, UML.
Contact: julien[@]idexlab.com/ /@ ideXlab / / LinkedIn
Florent Bories, Research and Innovation, is a final year student from Mines ParisTech pursuing a Master’s Degree in Executive Engineering. He has studied the C-K design theory and is working on integrating it into the ideXlab platform.
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Kellyjoy kiambatih, communications, has a BA in international business and Marketing. She formally worked in telecommunication in strategy and innovation. She is highly passionate about start-ups especially in technology.
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Really interesting, thanks!
I think that you would be really interested in some of the most cutting-edge research that I have come across explaining crowds, open innovation, and citizen science.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1919614
And you may also enjoy this blog about the same too:
https://thecrowdsociety.jux.com/
Powerful stuff, no?
Hello JMI. thanks for the read and the share. Really insightful information there!! just a question, are you part of the crowd society blog?
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