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Innovation Program Launched to Boost SMEs in Energy Supply Chain
The Utility Magazine website reported that an Australian-first open innovation program, titled GeneratER, has been launched by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) to boost small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the energy resources supply chain and find local manufacturing and tech solutions to complex challenges. GeneratER has been established
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Innovation: A New Look
The Global Finance website reported that while copying big tech verbatim doesn’t make sense, there are a number of potential innovation models that large incumbent companies might consider. One strategy is to give up trying to invent in-house, and instead commission research globally. Procter &
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Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem
The California Management Review posted an article which noted that while open innovation ecosystems allow a firm to harness external sources of value creation, these external ties can also constrain its ability to adapt its innovation strategy to pursue new opportunities. This article looks at how an
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Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature
The Journal of Open Innovation posted a study which shows that another way to deal with open innovation is arising in the field of mobility. This methodology joins technological advances with individuals, metropolitan domains, and different urban areas and will probably become progressively more compelling
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Open Innovation for Wicked Problems: Using Proximity to Overcome Barriers
The California Management Review posted an article which noted that open innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems. However, the complexity of these types of problems renders the management of open innovation initiatives (even) more difficult. How can managers make open innovation for
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How Can Innovation Flourish in Scotland?
The Herald website asked the question “How can innovation flourish in Scotland?” And answered: “Community Lab, the Edinburgh based start-up, has been wrestling with this challenge and is responding with an online platform for truly open innovation. Andrew Barrie, its founder, says:
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Old Corporate Champions Can’t Save Japan
The East Asia Forum reported that we now live in a digital world, where the vanguards of innovation are often newer, entrepreneurial and knowledge-intensive companies. It is a world where giants regularly partner with others, including newcomers, in a process called ‘open innovation’. Pfizer’s
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Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation
The California Management Review posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and others which noted that open innovation has to date been driven largely by business objectives, but the imperative of social challenges has turned attention to the broader set of goals to which open innovation is relevant. This
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GeneratER: Open Innovation Challenge Program
The Nera website posted an Open Innovation Challenge in Australia. NERA is partnering with some of the energy industry’s leading companies who have committed to identify operational and business challenges and to work with Australian-based SMEs to pilot potential solutions. Using an open-source process
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From Closed to Open Systems: How the US Military Services Pursue Innovation
The Taylor and Francis Online website posted an article which noted that the return to strategic competition affects the US military services differently, but all are contending with the challenge of renewing their military advantage against near-peer, technologically advanced competitors. Commercially
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