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How Do Leaders Embrace Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation?
A chapter in the book New Leadership in Strategy and Communication demonstrates how open innovation can be applied to sustainability contexts: “In this chapter we specifically address the leadership challenges encountered in accessing the wide variety of knowledge from multiple external stakeholders. First, we demonstrate that implementing open
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Census Open Innovation Labs is Hiring for a Full-Stack Engineer
The Technical.ly website reported that The U.S. Census Bureau’s “startup-like team” specifically focuses on open innovation government projects. Census Open Innovation Labs (COIL) at the U.S. Census Bureau is hiring a full-stack engineer. COIL is comprised of a “startup-like team”
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Sandbox Initiative: Central Bank of Brazil
The Central Banking website reported that Lift is unlike other regulatory sandboxes in that it does not waive regulatory rules. Lift also differs in the types of firms it targets. At Lift, the submissions are all at an early stage and the purpose is to help participants reach a prototype stage through
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Tokyo 2020 launches “Open Innovation Challenge”
The Inside the Games website reported that Tokyo 2020 has launched its “Open Innovation Challenge”, a technology competition aimed at creating an innovative spectator experience and getting people involved in next year’s Olympic Games in Japan. Participants are invited to develop and
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How Houston’s Startup Community Can Teach the Fortune 500
The Biz Journals website noted that companies that embrace open innovation and remove boundaries to share knowledge are able to bolster their technology offerings to keep pace with the changes happening in their industries. By partnering with startups, Fortune 500 companies can evaluate new partners
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Lilly Launches ‘Innovation Challenge’
The Insideindianabusiness site reported that Eli Lilly and Co. has launched what it calls an open innovation challenge asking researchers nationwide to submit innovative digital health solutions to inform inflammatory bowel disease care. Lilly says the finalist who submits the winning idea will win $50,000.
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Why IBM is Embracing, Expanding Open Hardware Ecosystem
In an article on the WRALTechWire site Ken King, General Manager of OpenPOWER at IBM, said “We see a growing need for hardware designed and optimized to move data quickly between resources. For IBM Power Systems, we believe the key to designing and delivering such hardware is open innovation—up
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The Role of Sequential Coherence in Open Innovation:
The International Conference on Business Research posted a study which noted that open innovation does not always increase innovation performance. Extant literature provides inconsistent and inconclusive arguments in respect of the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance.
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Employee-Level Open Innovation in Emerging Markets
The Springer site posted a study which examines whether firms in an emergent market can strategically deploy the appropriate managerial resources to help their employees leverage internal and external knowledge sources into innovative output. The study’s theoretical approach highlights the microfoundations
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Trade Secrets and Trade Secret Asset Management
The JDSupra site noted that open innovation can take many forms. It can include working with universities, cooperating closely with key suppliers and vendors, collaborating with application developers, content providers, technology house and design houses, working with various communities including ‘open’
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