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New Social Innovation Platform Ensuring Equity and Wellbeing in Education
The Architecture and Design website reported that Steelcase, an Australian supplier of office equipment, has creating the Steelcase Social Innovation Lab to identify and accelerate the development of solutions addressing issues of equity and wellbeing in the education environment. Steelcase organized four free open innovation workshops, which attracted
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Eramet and EIT RawMaterials Launch Responsible Mining Challenge
The International Mining website reported that following the success of last year’s challenge, Eramet is launching the 2021 edition of its Open Innovation Challenge with a theme of Responsible Mining. Start-ups and SMEs are invited to apply to the Eramet Responsible Mining Challenge 2021 from June
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Africa’s First Cooperative Innovation Firm
Davis Cook is the CEO of the Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS), Africa’s first cooperative innovation firm. In an interview on the Africa in Space website he described the work of RIIS. “RIIS was established in 2008 as an innovation consultancy firm, and in 2010, the
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Innovation Program Launched to Boost SMEs in Energy Supply Chain
The Utility Magazine website reported that an Australian-first open innovation program, titled GeneratER, has been launched by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) to boost small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the energy resources supply chain and find local manufacturing and tech solutions
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Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem
The California Management Review posted an article which noted that while open innovation ecosystems allow a firm to harness external sources of value creation, these external ties can also constrain its ability to adapt its innovation strategy to pursue new opportunities. This article looks at how an
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Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature
The Journal of Open Innovation posted a study which shows that another way to deal with open innovation is arising in the field of mobility. This methodology joins technological advances with individuals, metropolitan domains, and different urban areas and will probably become progressively more compelling
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Open Innovation for Wicked Problems: Using Proximity to Overcome Barriers
The California Management Review posted an article which noted that open innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems. However, the complexity of these types of problems renders the management of open innovation initiatives (even) more difficult. How can managers make open innovation for
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How Can Innovation Flourish in Scotland?
The Herald website asked the question “How can innovation flourish in Scotland?” And answered: “Community Lab, the Edinburgh based start-up, has been wrestling with this challenge and is responding with an online platform for truly open innovation. Andrew Barrie, its founder, says:
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Old Corporate Champions Can’t Save Japan
The East Asia Forum reported that we now live in a digital world, where the vanguards of innovation are often newer, entrepreneurial and knowledge-intensive companies. It is a world where giants regularly partner with others, including newcomers, in a process called ‘open innovation’. Pfizer’s
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Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation
The California Management Review posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and others which noted that open innovation has to date been driven largely by business objectives, but the imperative of social challenges has turned attention to the broader set of goals to which open innovation is relevant. This
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