Knowledge Transfer between Academics And Companies In Open Innovation
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Knowledge Transfer between Academics And Companies In Open Innovation

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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Open Innovation Challenge To Fight Against The Resistance To Antibiotics
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Open Innovation Challenge To Fight Against The Resistance To Antibiotics

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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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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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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Innovative Environments: Which ones allow an exceptional level of innovation?

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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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…

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General Mills : More Open Innovation Products
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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…

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A Transatlantic Open Innovation Platform
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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…

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Collaborative Innovation: Do we Collaborate or Cooperate?
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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…

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Corporates Open Innovation Centers
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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…

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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…

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Open Innovation in China: Transitioning From Copycat to an Innovate Hub
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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…

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