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Break Out to Open Innovation
The MIT Sloan Management Review posted an article which noted that in 2016, R&D and digital business managers at Mercedes’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, realized that their efforts to collaborate with startups — a valuable source of external innovation — were being hampered by the company’s existing innovation processes. In response,
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Developing an Open Innovation Attitude Assessment Framework for Organizations
The MDPI website posted an article which noted that from an organizational perspective, open innovation (OI) capability assessments are becoming increasingly important. The authors propose that an organization’s attitude toward interactive OI activities among OI stakeholders can reveal its degree of
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EarlyBirds Is Helping Organizations Build a Sustainability Strategy to Join the Circular Economy
Yahoo! Finance reported that EarlyBirds, an open innovation ecosystem platform, is offering organizations around the world who want to participate in the Circular Economy (a way to rethink, redesign and reconceptualize economies to better address human needs) the opportunity to network with startups
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‘Sixth Sense’ Takes Startups’ Advanced Tech and Products from Minimum Viable Product to Commercialization
Quality Digest reported that the open innovation platform Sixth Sense brings together startups and industry-leading companies to create transformative solutions that benefit everyone. It promotes sharing resources, data, and ideas to fast-track progress and solve real-world problems that address some
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Hyundai Motor Group Recruiting Startups for 2022 ZER01NE Accelerator
The Newsmarket website reported that Hyundai Motor Group announced its 2022 first half ZER01NE Accelerator program, an open innovation platform to facilitate collaboration between startups and Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation on various projects. This program aims to discover valuable startups
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IIT Hyderabad to set up Suzuki Innovation Centre
The Business Standard reported that the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) and Suzuki Motor Corporation signed a three-year contract to start Suzuki Innovation Centre (SIC) with the vision of “creating innovations for India and Japan” by way of providing a platform for exchange
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OIL Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary, Picks Plug Fest Winners
The DVIDS website reported that to make standards open to people who can truly innovate with them as partners with the military and the Army in particular, Project Manager Positioning Navigation and Timing (PM PNT) stood up the Open Innovation Lab (OIL) last year to bring more potential partners from
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How Licensing Helps Protect Your Idea. You have a great idea. How are you going to protect it?
An article on Inc.com asks, You have a great idea. How are you going to protect it? The quickest way to transform an idea into a widely distributed product is by partnering with a company already in business. How can you find companies looking for ideas? It’s not hard, but it does take work. With
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Public Provides NASA with New Innovations
The NASA website reported that whether problem-solving during the pandemic, establishing a long-term presence at the Moon, or advancing technology to adapt to life in space, NASA has leveraged open innovation tools to inspire solutions to some of our most timely challenges – while using the creativity
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EarlyBirds Calls Tech Innovative Startups, Scaleup by Opportunity
Tittle Press noted that many companies are moving away from traditional R&D due to factors such as market transformation, changing customer expectations, digital disruption or the need to achieve Net Zero and sustainability goals. All of this is driving the need for innovation in most areas of a
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