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Hitachi Invests in Venture Capital Fund to Accelerate Open Innovation
The Asia One website reported that Hitachi has agreed to invest in a fund managed by Geodesic Capital, a venture capital company active mainly in Silicon Valley. By investing in this fund, Hitachi will help to accelerate open innovation with startup companies in Silicon Valley using Geodesic Capital’s network. In addition to the investment,
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Swedish Firms Partner to Build Open Innovation Platform for Energy Projects
The Clean Technology Business Review website reported that InnoEnergy Scandinavia, KTH Innovation and Stockholm Innovation & Growth have partnered to build an open innovation platform for energy-related projects. The goal is to coordinate and facilitate the contact between early-stage companies and
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Negotiation in Open Innovation
An article in the journal Group Decision and Negotiation noted that few studies have organically analyzed the role of negotiation from an open innovation perspective, although many of them emphasize its importance in successful collaborations. This article analyzes the state of the art on the critical
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Evolution of the Open Innovation Paradigm
The Science Direct website posted an article which noted that openness has increasingly become a trend in innovation management. This study aims to propose a contingent conceptual framework for open innovation that reflects the evolution of this concept based on the academic literature. Besides, it
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Roles and Responsibilities of Open Innovation Specialists
The Journal of Innovation Management posted an article which noted that innovative companies are increasingly creating new open innovation functions and employing open innovation specialists to facilitate innovation processes. However, research that explores these emerging jobs remains scarce. This
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Designing Innovation With IP Thinking
The Mondaq website noted that the design of innovation must include the relationships between the different actors involved in the process, such as the different areas within the same company, or the relations with the ecosystem in open innovation processes, in a way that is efficient and at the same
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Roles and Responsibilities of Open Innovation Specialists
The Journal of Innovation Management posted a study which examines the worldwide job market for ‘open innovation’ specialists as per job title and/or job description. The findings identify the key responsibilities of dedicated open innovation specialists and associated skills and the competencies
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AstraZeneca CEO Heralds New Era of Collaboration
The Cambridge Independent website reported that AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot announced that the company’s advanced drug discovery robot, NiCoLA-B, will be housed in the biopharmaceutical company’s new £500million global research and development center, heralding a new era of openness and
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Adoption of Open Innovation in Large Firms
The Taylor Francis Online website posted large-sample survey of open innovation adoption and management in large firms, a follow-up to a previous study. Some of the survey measures from the first survey were repeated, finding that open innovation continues to be widely practiced in about 80 percent
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A Framework Based on Sustainability, Open Innovation, and Value Cocreation
The MDPI website posted a paper which deals with a case study in an Italian maritime cluster seen through a multiple paradigms framework, based on Sustainability, Open Innovation, and Value Co-creation . The proposed theoretical framework helps to interpret a true phenomenon consisting of the design
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