Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation

An article on the Forbes website noted that the need for greater dissemination of technology was recently promoted by a report from MIT’s task force on the work for the future. This is predominantly because the majority of investment in new technology is done by a relatively small number of large companies.

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Henry Chesbrough Receives the Leadership in Technology Management Award

Henry Chesbrough, “the father of open innovation,,” has received the  Leadership in Technology Management Award presented by PICMET (the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology). The Award  recognizes and honors individuals who have provided leadership

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Henry Chesbrough’s Latest Book: Open Innovation Results

The Oxford University Press website posted a description of Henry Chesbrough’s latest book, Open Innovation Results. In this book Henry Chesbrough, the originator of open innovation, examines the hype behind its practice, shows where real results are taking place, and explains how companies can

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6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

The 6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference will be held in Rome, Italy on Dec. 12-13. Open Innovation experts will combine their business experience with transformational objectives, with academic perspectives on societal challenges. This year’s conference theme: “Opening Up for Managing Business

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ABFRL Launches Innovation Challenge to Find Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

The Outlook India website reported that Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) has launched a first-of-its-kind open Innovation Challenge with Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF) to spearhead a change in packaging and find innovative alternatives to plastics. India generates almost 26,000

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The Naval Technology website reported that the French company Naval Group has launched a research and development center of excellence in Singapore to develop world-class expertise for strategic naval defense research topics. In June this year, the company organized Start We Up, an innovation marathon

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How to Fight Rare Diseases with Radically Open Innovation

The Economist website reported that when told he would die and be given the last rites, a medical student decided to hunt for a cure from his hospital bed. He found one and survived. Now a doctor in his own right, David Fajgenbaum is pioneering a new approach to fighting rare diseases through an open

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Open Innovation: High Hopes and Many Challenges

The ProQuest website posted the abstract and beginning of an article which noted that during recent years different variants of IT-enabled public sector open innovation have been proposed as ways of overcoming the difficulties that public sector organizations face in terms of – on one side –

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How Does Open Innovation Lead Competitive Advantage?

The Plos One website noted that the relationship between open innovation and a company’s competitive advantage, and organizational capabilities required remains to be explained. This study was conducted to answer the following questions: Does open innovation create organization’s competitive

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