14 Open Innovation Skills Collaborative innovation, open innovation, co-innovation are all terms whose meaning is understood without a clear definition being agreed upon. It is therefore not surprising to find companies claiming to be ‘doing Open Innovation’ (the term we use in the rest of this paper) with very different…
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Open innovation: Blockchain as a natural use case to protect Intellectual Property
How to manage Intellectual Property? Open Innovation Intellectual Property – In a knowledge-based economy, it is essential to be able to protect industrial assets. Intellectual property rights are therefore essential for the proper development of a company and constitute a barrier in the event of industrial conflict. On the surface, Open…
Knowledge Management: why its association with Open Innovation works perfectly?
Open Innovation and Knowledge Management: a successful combination We have had the opportunity to develop elsewhere (1) the need, in open innovation approaches, to rely on external knowledge in order to find scientific and technological information and the experts associated with this information. This point of view is at the…
How to do Teleworking Research?
Research in the Digital Age – The Researcher 3.0 The digital age is changing the approach to research as it has been practiced since the Renaissance. This ongoing revolution opens up the opportunity to “carry out research differently”. Traditional research – the triptych lab, library, conference For a long time,…
Can the Pharmaceutical Industry use Open Innovation to find New Treatments?
Open Innovation & New Treatments We were curious to see what results could result from a study of Open Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry applied to the identification of new molecules for therapeutic indications. The pharmaceutical sector has been a pioneer in Open Innovation and invests considerably in the discovery…
Can an SME innovate quickly and efficiently?
Managing Open Innovation in SMEs Managing Open Innovation in SMEs – When we started to focus on SMEs, we were curious to understand if our approaches and tools developed around Open Innovation for large Corporates could be applied to SMEs. Of course, innovation is a key element of competitiveness for…
How to measure the results of Open Innovation?
Unobvious results to measure with innovation Results Open Innovation – Measuring the Return on Investment that innovation (or Open Innovation) brings to a company is an extremely difficult task. When trying this task, it should be taken into account that part of the exercise is actually subjective, and can therefore…
Why SMEs need to be concerned about Open Innovation?
All companies can benefit from Open Innovation Open Innovation SME – When we talk about using Open Innovation in R&D, we immediately think about large corporates. However, Open innovation can be particularly useful and beneficial for other types of companies. SMEs are a perfect example of this. Open Innovation in…
Is Open Innovation really collaborative?
Can we really talk about collaboration when using Open Innovation? 2018 was a busy year for me as an Open Innovation specialist. I had the opportunity to speak to more than 170 Innovation / Open Innovation Directors in large groups across Europe. One of my findings was that in most…
An example of state-of-the-art using Open Innovation
How to achieve a state of the art? How to realize a state-of-the-art? How can Open Innovation help? Some simple answers below. State-of-the-art : definition A state of the art is the identification of previous knowledge to avoid reinventing. Making a state-of-the-art makes it possible to verify or justify that…
[Guide] Which Open Innovation models to consider?
Different solutions are available to your company Open Innovation becomes a remedy when an answer to a technological or scientific question can not be found internally in a company, when outsourcing the answer or the solution is the best way to go. But what are the best Open Innovation models…
[Videos] What you need to know about ideXlab’s Open Innovation platform
ideXlab: a worldwide Open Innovation platform providing multiple services Using an Open Innovation platform can improve your technology intelligence and accelerate innovation within your company by offering access to the right experts and knowledge at any time. ideXlab provides as a multi-service platform the opportunity to leverage the scientific community.…