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The House Antitrust Report is a Major Step Toward Reining in Big Tech
The Brookings website noted that a recent Wall Street Journal story on a Congressional report with the headline “Big Tech Buyout Fantasies May Be on Hold” illustrates an additional problem created by the failure to integrate antitrust proposals into a larger policy framework. Is the House report’s recommendation to discourage the tech giants’
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Design-Based Learning to Enhance Absorptive Capacity for Open Innovation
The Emerald Insight website posted a study which explores how learning processes supported by intensive use of design can favor absorptive capacity in open innovation contexts characterized by the interaction of a high number of diverse stakeholders. The findings provide evidence about the role of
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Open Innovation Can Transform Health Care Technology
Forbes reported that today, especially in response to Covid-19, many tech companies are embracing open innovation — a creative, participatory approach to problem-solving that stresses breaking down silos and building collaboration across disciplines and firms. Open innovation is fundamental in better
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Patent-Related Actions Taken in WTO Members in Responce to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The World Trade Organization posted a paper which noted that open innovation describes a broad concept that emphasizes seeking synergies and collaboration including with external actors to advance the development of new technologies. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, civil society organizations
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Global Open Innovation Challenge Seeks Submissions for Reimagining Private Sector Fundraising
The European Fundraising Association reported that a group of international NGOs are seeking ideas on how to reimagine private sector fundraising and make it more sustainable for the future. The 14 international NGOs, which include Action Against Hunger, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, UNICEF and
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KITA’s Startup Branch Becomes Mecca of Innovative Growth
The Korea Herald reported that the Korea International Trade Association’s (KITA) open innovation venue Startup Branch is becoming a mecca for innovative growth among local and global firms. Startup Branch has IR pitching centers, conference rooms and networking lobby space. It has been open throughout
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Tencent Partners with Hyundai CRADLE (Beijing) for Smart Mobility Business
The China Automotive News reported that Tencent Intelligence Mobility, Tencent’s smart transportation solution developer, has formed an innovative strategic partnership with Hyundai CRADLE (Beijing), for the collaboration on auto-related mobility services. Launched in late September, Hyundai CRADLE
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Intelligence Agency Has Found New Ways to Find Magnetic North
The C4ISERNET website reported that The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has found new and better ways to measure the Earth’s magnetic field. “The importance of the World Magnetic Model cannot be overstated: It is critical to keeping everyday navigational systems running,” said NGA
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Civil Servants Must Embrace ‘New Mindsets’ in a ‘Tech-Powered New Normal’
The Philippine Information Agency reported that Associate Professor Naomi Aoki of the University of Tokyo came up with four mindsets that must be embodied by civil servants as regulators of the use of technologies and as policymakers. First is to be receptive to open innovation. According to Aoki,
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Bayer Has Big Plans in West Berkeley for Next 30 Years
The San Francisco Business Times reported that Biocom President and CEO Joe Panetta said that large companies play a critical role in the larger life sciences community as sources of best practices in the functional areas of running a biotech company. “Some of the earliest biotech companies are still
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