Particularly useful Partnerships NCUB made a research commissioned by the Technology Strategy Board and Research Councils UK on the benefits of academic and business knowledge transfer partnerships through a model of best practice (you can get the full Successful engagement in Open Innovation report here). The academic expertise engaged with British businesses so as…
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The Longitude Prize This year’s choice topic for the longitude Prize is finding the long awaited answer on the resistance to Antibiotics with an awarded prize of £10 M to be won. The World Health Organization estimates that antibiotics treatments add an average of 20 years to all of our…
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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