India invented the “Jugaad” or “Frugal Innovation” Frugal Innovation: Meet Sam Pitroda Jugaad was popularized by Sam Pitroda, founder of C-DOT, who has developed and popularized telecommunications in India. Frugal innovation can be defined as “the commercialization, in the context of limited resources, of quality products and services that are…
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Better, Faster, Harder - SME Open Innovation
SME & Open Innovation The demand for innovation is becoming increasingly pressing and is accelerating… paving the way for SME open innovation We observe that even on the historical offer-driven markets as consumer electronics, the demand side is now imposing the pace, not the offer. Consumers expect better products everyday…

Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing, a concept born in mid 2000s in the USA, is one of the tools available to companies willing to embrace open innovation. As a definition of Open Innovation, one could say that for a company, it represents the extension of the sphere of innovation actors. The crowdsourcing fully represents that logic.…

Open Innovation ROI
Focus on the Return on Investment of Open Innovation Editor’s note: We have written a more recent article on this subject entitled How to measure the results of Open Innovation? Innovation is a crucial investment for any company.. However, it is often difficult to evaluate the return on investment (ROI)…

Innovation Communication: An Internal Corporate Issue
Innovation Communication An internal communication opportunity In 2013, the french index of company values indicated that 34% of companies consider innovation as the main value they claim to have, before quality, integrity and client satisfaction. Innovation represents the element of distinction in institutional speech as well as in developing the…

Innovation Management - What is it?
Innovation management: creating and developing innovations Nowadays, innovation is the main development lever for companies. While in the past it emerged from collaboration between the R&D and Marketing departments, nowadays innovation reaches out to a larger field in the company and it requires various competences and a specific management. We…

The role of open innovation intermediaries
What is an Open Innovation intermediaries? One aspect that differenciates Open Innovation from other innovation management approaches is the emergence of innovation intermediaries. While we observed the involvement of intermediary actors in situations such as technology alliances, we now see these intermediaries taking part in the innovation strategies of many…

Orange crowdsourcing Platform: Imagine with Orange
Orange crowdsourcing Platform Orange innovation teams are harnessing the power of crowdsourcing by tapping into the collective wisdom of the people at the very forefront of the digital revolution: consumers. As part of the “Imagine with Orange” initiative, your ideas take on a global dimension, giving you the chance to…

IdeXlab welcomes 4 major industrial groups amongst its customers
IdeXlab keeps growing ideXlab Customers – Safran, Thales, Airbus Defense and Space and Schneider Electric are already familiar with the concepts of Open Innovation. They have however recognised the novelty of the ideXlab’s solution and subscribed to it to deepen their Open Innovation practice. Thanks to ideXlab’s online services one can discover…

The World Ranking of Innovation: What to Think About it?
An Innovation Ranking It is quite popular to see rankings of all sorts in newspapers or TV shows. We are always intringued and want to know who is first, where we are, how others are ranked… human after all, right ? INSEAD, Cornell University and the WIPO have published a…

Open innovation: they are the 99%!
Open Innovation is about exactly this: allow you to benefit from the other 99% of knowledge I only wanted to share this simple infographics inspired by a presentation by Creax . Their presentation includes nice representations of the Open Innovation benefits, recommended. This one simply tries to represent what an…

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…