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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Open Innovation in the Automotive Industry
Open 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 trigger of absorptive capacity is made up of two sequences…
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…
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…