The role of open innovation intermediaries
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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…

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Open innovation: they are the 99%!
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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…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Henry Chesbrough Open Innovation
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Henry Chesbrough Open Innovation

Henry Chesbrough and the Concept of Open Innovation Open Innovation is a paradigm promoted by Henry Chesbrough that expands on the ideas of interbusiness collaboration. Over the last decade or so it has been primarily attributed to Dr. Chesbrough from his position as adjunct professor and faculty director of the…

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