The interview of Justo Puerto Albandoz Open innovation platforms are a great success when it comes to bringing experts and companies together so that they can innovate. We got the opportunity to interview Justo Puerto Albandoz , a professor of operations research at the University of Seville, Spain, who has…
Is car safety too expensive ?
Is car safety too expensive ? General Motors has announced the recall of more than 2 million vehicles for safety reasons. This brings the total number of cars recalled by the manufacturer to more than 13 million in the United States in the past year, more than the total production…
Would Tetris be useful for more than to kill time ?
An Unsuspected Usefulness Tetris was launched by a Russian scientist in 1984. 30 years later, 70 million games were sold, Tetris has been downloaded to 130 million mobile phones and over one billion people have tried it (3 million per day on facebook some says) ! Yet it is so…
Internet from Space
Google wants to deploy hundreds of satellites There is much talk about internet from space, or say by satellite, since Google announced plans to deploy hundreds of satellites worth 1b$ to provide fast internet access to uncovered areas. Many research focuses on the internet from space already: what telecommunication protocols,…
Implementing swifter Open Innovation thanks to the C-K design theory PART 1
The C-K Design Theory The C-K design theory is a theory of reasoning in design, that aims to provide a single yet domain-independent approach to innovators seeking to streamline their innovation workflows. It builds on classical design theories, then goes beyond problem-solving by stimulating truly innovative design. This is due…
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…
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…
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.…
General Mills : More Open Innovation Products
The Open Innovation Products from General Mills While most of you may be familiar with the products such as Yoplait greek 100, natural valley protein bar, fiber one 90- calories brownies, and the recently released Fiber One Soft-Baked Cookies, what you may not have know was that these products are…
A Transatlantic Open Innovation Platform
The Open Innovation Club PRIME and the French Consulate in San Francisco came together to create an ‘open innovation club’ , a collection of large French and American companies aimed at fostering open innovation across all stake holders in the innovation ecosystem through an open innovation platform: large companies, start-ups, research…
Webinar: 8 Implications of Open Innovation
The Top 8 Implications of Open Innovation in Your Company The president and co- founder of ideXlab, an open innovation platform that automates intermediation between experts and enterprises, shares the experiences encountered by companies wanting to implement open innovation since ideXlab is in constant dialogue with them and explains the…
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…