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Open Innovation Companies Help Inventors Move Ahead
In her New York Times online article “You Bring an Idea, and They’ll Do the Rest,” Amy Wallace discusses “a new movement of amateur noodlers whose brainstorms are finding their way to market through partnerships with companies that seek out people just like them: folks with inspiration, but no business expertise.” Edison Nation is among the
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How Your Small Business Can Leverage Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
In this article, Stephen Shaprio discusses open innovation with Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of InnoCentive. Among other topics, this piece focuses on how open innovation can be used by small businesses and the mistakes companies make in the implementation stage.
Case Study: Apps for Healthy Kids
The United States Department of Agriculture recently held a crowdsourcing initiative to combat the obesity epidemic and get young America on its feet. Game designers, software developers and students were challenged to come up with healthy, motivational and fun apps for children and competed for a prize
HHS and The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology introduce new Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative
Washington, D.C. — The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today the Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative – a bold new program designed to spur innovations in health IT. The program centers on prizes and competitions to accelerate the development
Henry Chesbrough’s Presentation at Hit Barcelona World Innovation Summit
Below, please find a video of Professor Henry Chesbrough’s presentation at the Hit Barcelona World Innovation Summit. Image via flickr.
The Development and Organization of Participatory Innovation
“Participatory innovation is still a new experience to many practitioners. How do you make sure you are actually listening to users? And how do you organize your company internally to properly involve external stakeholders. Participatory innovation is the new discipline of involving users of products
BT Promotes Open Innovation At World Innovation Forum
NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — BT (NYSE: BT) took the stage today at World Innovation Forum 2011 (WIF) in New York City to share its vision of open innovation and how its own technology enables collaborative innovation “at the speed of life” for many of the world’s leading
Deploying Open Innovation Inside the Enterprise
In their article “From Skunk Works to Enterprise Open Innovation,” Klaus-Peter Speidel and Michael Bonner discuss how enterprise open innovation can help overcome limitations of the “Skunk Works technique, whereby companies build dedicated cross-functional innovation teams to work on specific projects.”
TopCoder Addresses Open Innovation & Building Successful B2B Online Customer Communities
GLASTONBURY, Conn., June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced that company Founder Jack Hughes will participate in the