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Understanding the Effects of Social Capital on Social Innovation Ecosystems in Latin America
The International Review of Sociology published a study based on the analysis of two pioneering experiences tackling poverty in Latin America: Socialab (from Chile) and Compartamos con Colombia (from Colombia). Both cases are social innovation hubs that promote open innovation processes. Socialab practices open and disruptive innovation, seeking to
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Does Global Competition Allow Open Innovation for a Small Country?
The INA-Rxiv website posted an article which noted that in facing the global competition, small countries should develop their national research and development. Open innovation aims to improve the organization ability to innovate new ideas for products and solutions through exploiting external ideas
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Opportunities in Open Innovation
The Opinno.com website noted that open innovation presents serious opportunities to both large and small companies. The exchange of knowledge between scientific players, public institutions and business partners, for example, decreases investment costs in research and development, while increasing potential
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Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets
The DevOps.com website reported that Open Innovation Labs were developed by Red Hat as immersive training grounds to help its enterprise customers figure out how to deliver better software, faster. “By working with the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs team, we changed everything—our toolchain, our
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A Contextual Approach To Open Innovation
The Inderscience Online website posted a study which develops a theoretical framework of the relationship between open innovation practices, individuals performing those practices, and context factors that enable or constrain those individuals carrying out open innovation practices. The paper reports
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Absorbing In-Bound Knowledge Within Open Innovation Processes
The Emerald Insight website posted a study which investigated the way companies involved in Open Innovation Processes routinize the procedure through which they can absorb in-bound knowledge, using a case study of Fiat Chrysler. In-bound knowledge passes through the phases of acquisition, assimilation,
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Sustaining Innovation: Creativity among Employees of SMEs
The Journal of Open Innovation posted an article which compares creativity experiences and perceptions among employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and students in higher education institutions. The findings indicate a majority in both groups have not received prior instruction in creativity
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From Collaborative Community to Competitive Market
The Wiley Online Library posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and Thomas Kohler which noted that crowdsourcing presents new opportunities to generate social innovation. However, many crowdsourcing social innovation initiatives struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms.
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What’s Driving the Boom in Early Stage Biotech Funding?
The LabTech website noted that J&J Innovation is one of the many investors that are turning their gaze to the promise of early-stage research. J&J Innovation is following a strategy focusing on supporting ‘open innovation’, an approach that they believe could work where the traditional
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The Pioneer Trail Towards Open Innovation
The 150SEC.com website reported that the Vienna based startup incubator, Pioneers, is holding its annual flagship event, Pioneers 2019, in the Austrian capital from May 9th-10th. The theme for the two-day event is open innovation. A global community of selected startups, executives and investors join
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