S. African Space Agency & Airbus launch Open Innovation Challenge

The Itnewsafrica website reported that the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) together with Airbus Defense and Space have launched an Open Innovation Challenge project which is aimed at developing and supporting home-grown applications for earth observation data obtained by satellites. The

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Siemens, GE Partner With Open-Source Innovation Community

The Society of Petroleum Engineers website reported that San Francisco-based Launch Forth, an enterprise-level SaaS platform, is powered by an open-innovation community of more than 185,000 solvers. Members participate in projects sponsored by enterprise-level clients including HP Inc., General Electric

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Patents and Open Innovation

The Cairn.info website reported that many recent studies have highlighted that the patent system might, paradoxically, promote open innovation by stimulating inter-firm collaborations and markets for technology. Indeed, it seems that to open up a firm’s boundaries can be risky, and patents can often

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Open Innovation: University-Industry Collaboration in Russia

The Asia News Network website posted an article that sheds light on the implementation of open innovation model in collaboration between companies and universities in a global scale, particularly in Russia. The study is qualitative and is based on integrative analysis of literature, secondary data and

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Reluctance to Share Innovations Means Lost Opportunities

The Newwise website noted that Johns Hopkins professors Phillip Phan and Dean Wong Wong point to the United States technology sector as an industry that has profited from its embrace of shared, open innovation. American tech firms’ realization in the mid-1980s that Japan had become the industry’s

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Hyundai to invest $21.6 Billion in New Mobility

The PulseNews website reported that when it comes to fostering startups, Hyundai Motor Group unveiled plans to establish an open innovation system that enables it to set up joint ventures and enhance partnership with universities and research institutions. The conglomerate also unveiled plans to put

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Pitney Bowes Announces Global Hackathon Winners

The BusinessWire website reported that Pitney Bowes, a global technology company, has announced the winners of the Pitney Bowes Global Hackathon. More than 2,000 developers from major technology firms submitted 65 new technology solutions during the contest. The Hackathon invited developers and startups

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Creating a World Class Innovation Infrastructure

The IAM magazine website posted an article which noted that the presence of academic and government entities among the alumni of top innovators confirms the role government can play in encouraging innovation, as well as the longer-term potential for corporations and academia to collaborate in bringing

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The ResearchGate website posted an article by Henry Chesbrough, Marcel Bogers and Carlos Moedas “Open Innovation: Research, Practices, and Policies” which noted that  open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, business, and policy making. This article describes the state of

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