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Vale Partners with NORCAT for Mining Innovation Challenge
The International Mining website reported that NORCAT and Vale have teamed up to launch the NORCAT Open Innovation Challenge to facilitate and enhance Vale’s capabilities to bring new, state-of-the-art technologies into its mining operations and accelerate the rate of technology adoption in the global mining industry. Anthony Downs, a manager at Vale,
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Innovation by Proxy: Clusters as Ecosystems Facilitating Open Innovation
The JEMI website posted a paper which investigates the potential role of clusters as intermediaries of open innovation for cluster members. The article conceptually links open innovation and clusters, proposes and categorizes roles of clusters as open innovation intermediaries, as well as indicates factors
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Chinese Industry Giants Leading the World by Creating Enormous Business Ecosystems
The Global Newswire website reported that as the undisputed global leaders in manufacturing, China has for years been perfecting the model of open innovation within large business ecosystems. Adding to much of the country’s economic rise over recent decades, these huge ecosystems are comprised of a
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Vallourec Launches the Third Edition of its Open Innovation Challenge
The World Pipelines website reported that Vallourec, a tubular solutions company, has launched the third edition of its “Open Innovation Challenge”, dedicated to finding solutions to help its customers reduce their carbon footprint. This initiative is open worldwide to start-ups, laboratories
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Informality and Innovation: Bottom-up Industrialization for Africa?
The Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy has several studies on open innovation. The advantages of operating within a system of open collaborative innovation are highlighted. Through their case study open innovation is defined as the use of both individual and shared ideas, related
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Stakeholder-Driven Conceptualization of Open Innovation Approaches in the SYNERGY Project
A new book Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2020 has a chapter on open innovation which notes that since the late 90s, the way companies acquire novel ideas and bring resulting products to the market is in a paradigm shift moving towards open innovation concepts and making use of crowd-based approaches.
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Do Not Miss the Boat to Outside-in Open innovation
The Science Direct website posted a study which aims to empirically examine three “softer” drivers of outside-in OI (i.e., entrepreneurial culture, OI support, and OI enablement), based on a cross-industry sample of 104 firms. The results show that the relationship between entrepreneurial culture
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TRI-AD announces It Will Participate in SmartCityX, a Global Open Innovation Program
The Automotive World website reported that Toyota Research Institute–Advanced Deve lopment, Inc. (“TRI-AD”) will actively participate in SmartCityX, a global open innovation program led by Scrum Ventures. This program aims to create high-value services and applications from the perspective of consumers
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Walking the Tightrope of Open Innovation
The Lund University School of Economics and Management posted a study whose purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of what barriers the individual employee who performs open innovation practices is facing in the transition phase–what happens between the front-end to the back-end of the process–and
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Unilever Seeks Supporting Solutions via its Open Innovation Portal
The Yet 2 website reported that consumer product giant Unilever has set out a “new range of measures and commitments designed to improve the health of the planet by taking even more decisive action to fight climate change, and protect and regenerate nature, to preserve resources for future generations.”
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