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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.” Unilever’s open innovation initiative, and
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A Strategic Design Guideline for Open Business Models
The International Journal of Automation Technology posted a study which noted that to realize a competitive product-service system, a manufacturer is required to change its closed business model and develop open and sustainable alliances with external partners. As an alternative business model, an open
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Open Innovation: A Study About the 3M and Natura – Brazil Companies
The IberoAmerican Journal of Strategic Management posted a study whose aim is to verify how Natura and 3M businesses included open innovation in their everyday practices. The results show that open innovation is understood by companies like a strategy that permeates the ecosystem to the complement of
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Singapore Gathers Global Energy Firms to Seek New Innovation for Sector
The ZDNet website reported that Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips as well as the Singapore government agency together launched the Energy Open Innovation Challenge, which they said would give small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and startups the opportunity to pitch and testbed their solutions
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Helping SMEs Adopt Open Innovation
The 7th Space website reported that Singapore Management University professor Pascala Crama has launched a research project “Open Innovation systems for SMEs in Singapore.” The Project seeks to “identify, develop and test interventions which influence SMEs to increase the adoption and
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Open Collaborative Innovation Process and Their Relationship with University-Industry and Innovation Performance
The Digital Library website posted a study by Sandra Saraceni which explores whether, in open innovation practices, the knowledge that flows across organizational boundaries, during the collaborative University-Industry process, can positively affect Innovation Performance, Organizational Performance
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Managing the Challenges of Business-to-Business Open Innovation in Complex Projects
The Science Direct website posted a study which noted that research shows that knowledge sharing and system integration are two major challenges posed by openness to business partners in complex innovation projects. However, there remains limited research on the microfoundations (i.e., actions and practices)
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Technology and Strategic Surprise: Adapting to an Era of Open Innovation
An article in the The US Army War College Quarterly noted that technological revolutions affecting military innovation and state power can be either open or closed. In the twentieth century, military technological innovation was mainly closed. By contrast, in the twenty-first century technological innovation
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Construction of University Makerspace from the Perspective of Open Innovation
The DPI-Proceedings website posted a study which noted that in the context of knowledge-based economy, with the booming of the maker movement, open innovation theory based on collaborative innovation and user innovation has promoted the makerspace as a significant innovation medium and an emerging form
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Open Innovation in Africa: Current Realities, Future Scenarios
The Google Books website posted a chapter from the book Making Open Development Inclusive on Open Innovation in Africa which noted that when many people think of Africa, innovation is not a word that springs to mindd. It should be. The continent of Africa is among the most dynamic, innovative places
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