When Open Innovation breaks computing limits and ROI
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When Open Innovation breaks computing limits and ROI

Open Innovation ROI in medical Science Xerox Realbusiness blog published a stunning article yesterday on the Open Innovation ROI in medical science. They relate how the Harvard Medical School (HMS) used Open Innovation and a developpers’ contest to dramatically improve gene sequencing performance. The MegaBLAST algorithm from the National Center of…

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Open Innovation barriers
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Open Innovation barriers

Interview with Anders Hjalmarsson Interview with Anders Hjalmarsson of Viktoria Swedish ICT, Götegorg, Sweden. Author of “Beyond Innovation contest: a framework of barriers to open innovation of digital services” Q: Hello Anders, thank you for your time today. We would like to discuss the main findings of your work related…

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Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry
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Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry

>>Read also: The booming of Open Innovation and Ideation PlatformsOpen Innovation & Automotive   Open Innovation in the French Automotive Industry by Romaric Servajean-hilst, is an interesting study published at the European Academy of Management EURAM 2014 and that can be read here.   With an ethnographic approach, the author shows that “the…

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The Open Source Revolution has happened
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The Open Source Revolution has happened

Open Source & Open Innovation The Open Forum Academy has just released “Thoughts on Open Innovation” a free book including ten articles touching various aspects of Open Innovation and Open source.  In this post I would like to share my understanding and own thoughts regarding the article from Andrew Updegrove “”Openness” and…

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Open Innovation from the 18th century
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Open Innovation from the 18th century

Ancient forms of Open Innovation A refreshing article was posted on July 1st on the World Industrial Reporter website in relation with an earlier article by Innovation Excellence. It mentions Open Innovations from… the 19th century ! And it is true that the Marine Chronometer was invented by John Harrison in…

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The booming of Open Innovation and Ideation Platforms
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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.…

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Open innovation and intellectual property rights: contradiction and complementation*
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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…

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