Section » About
Advancing Biological Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
The Harvard Business School website posted an article which noted that researchers use open innovation competitions to benchmark their solutions to a particular computational problem, or to generalize their methodologies to instances of the problem for which a solution is unknown. Past examples demonstrate that open innovation competitions possess
Comments Off on Advancing Biological Research Through Open Innovation Competitions • Read this story »
More Articles
Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation
The R&D Management journal posted an article which noted that in recent years, public sector organizations have increasingly focused on citizen contribution by adopting instruments known from open innovation. A more open approach to innovation has become dominant in innovation management during
Comments Off on Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation • Read this story »
Explorer Challenge To Predict Next Big Mineral Deposit in South Australia
The Mining.com website reported that energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine learning-based mining
Comments Off on Explorer Challenge To Predict Next Big Mineral Deposit in South Australia • Read this story »
An End to In-House Innovation
The Times of Israel website noted that the factors that lead to the growth of this new approach [open innovation] include: the increasing availability and mobility of experts in the field of innovation; the increasing availability of capital; more opportunities for realizing the potential of innovation;
Comments Off on An End to In-House Innovation • Read this story »
Open Innovation in Small Towns and Rural Areas
The Wiley Online Library website posted an article which noted that a growing body of work shows that innovation occurs in peripheral regions and small towns in addition to cities.. Furthermore, work on rural social networks shows that diversity is multidimensional, and that along certain dimensions
Comments Off on Open Innovation in Small Towns and Rural Areas • Read this story »
NASA and Harvard Agree: ‘Think Different’
The Innovation and Tech Today website reported that to NASA, Harvard, and a myriad of other successful organizations, thinking different often means leveraging the efforts and ideas of outsiders or “non-traditional participants.” NASA stories of “Open Innovation” have been researched — and
Comments Off on NASA and Harvard Agree: ‘Think Different’ • Read this story »
Creativity and Stakeholders’ Engagement in Open Innovation
The Journal of Business Research posted a paper which investigates the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism for social creativity in technology-intensive enterprises’ open innovation practices. The focus is on how design can be used to connect and combine the contribution of creativity
Comments Off on Creativity and Stakeholders’ Engagement in Open Innovation • Read this story »
Open for Innovation: Why Engaged Firms Are More Creative
The Bertelsmann Stiftung website posted a report which discussed how soft knowledge flows from businesses’ corporate citizenship activities can enrich the hard business of innovation. Beyond conventional Open Innovation (OI) partnerships with startups, suppliers or universities, business-civil society
Comments Off on Open for Innovation: Why Engaged Firms Are More Creative • Read this story »
The Dynamics of Openness and the Role of User Communities
The IEEE Journal posted an article which noted that to remain competitive, it is critical for firms to integrate external sources of knowledge. However, finding the right degree of openness is challenging, especially in complex open innovation ecosystems. This paper investigates the role of openness
Comments Off on The Dynamics of Openness and the Role of User Communities • Read this story »
When Biz Model Innovation Comes Full Circle
The China Daily website noted that China’s creation of some of the world’s best-known tech-world abbreviations like BAT – short for Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – can be pinned to the power of the internet. BAT have overhauled traditional commercial business models by expanding
Comments Off on When Biz Model Innovation Comes Full Circle • Read this story »