Lessons on Institution Building

The DNA website noted that despite the fact that open innovation is ruling the world, many countries, companies, and institutions continue to be closed and impervious to learning from outside. Inversion is a sign of decline too. Instead of seeking ideas from outside and different levels, reliance on

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The World Open Innovation website announced that the 5th Annual World Open Innovation Conference will be held Dec. 13-14 in San Francisco.  This year’s conference theme, “Digital Transformation for Sustainability”, aims at creating a more inclusive and collaborative approach to understand and

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Open Innovation and the Future of Colorado Media

The University of Denver website reported that a project has been launched to develop a business plan and prototype for a sustainable, scalable independent statewide digital news medium for Colorado. Spurred in part by the continued decline of daily newspapers, the project’s participants will use

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Pact to Create Smart Villages

The Telegraph of India website reported that the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Smart Village Movement to facilitate technology innovations, research and development, open innovation, technology interventions and curriculum development in

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Barclays Partners With Simudyne

The PaymentWeek website reported that banking giant Barclays has signed an enterprise-wide license agreement with simulation company Simudyne to explore new ways to manage risk in a simulated virtual environment, leading to smarter business decisions. This is the latest in a series of partnerships that

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The Art of Merging OI and Intellectual Property Rights

The Ideon website posted information about a June seminar at which four Swedish companies discussed the levels of agreements that need to be in place for open innovation collaborations to work and presented a case study. How can large companies work together with universities, governmental institutions

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Vetter Launches Open Innovation Challenge

The Pharmabiz website reported that Vetter Pharma International, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization, has launched the Open Innovation Challenge campaign to develop a future-focused and sustainable solutions for the injection of medicines. It is bringing together approximately

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Open Minds for Open Innovation

The PMLive website noted that many large, successful organizations such as Apple and NASA are already embracing open innovation to stay at the top of their game. In healthcare, programs like 23andMe and PatientsLikeMe have demonstrated that this is a tangible tactic, despite the traditional need for

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AfricArena’s Current Open Innovation Challenges

The Ventureburn website reported that AfricArena, the international African startup and investor conference, currently has six challenges that entrepreneurs from across the continent can apply to. Entrepreneurs can apply to the following six challenges which AfricArena has already released details on.

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