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Open Sustainability: Conceptualization and Considerations
The Industrial Marketing Management website noted that sustainability represents a ‘grand challenge’, which can often not be addressed by actions of individuals or single organizations alone. To understand collaborative sustainability activities, the authors propose the concept of open sustainability. They derive open sustainability from literature
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Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open
The MIT Sloan Management Review noted that innovating with external partners doesn’t always give companies a competitive advantage. It needs to be balanced with internal efforts. Most companies, our research suggests, should rethink their innovation systems and develop portfolios with a balance of
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GSA Seeks Support for Challenge Sites
The Nextgov website reported that the Technology Transformation Service—the IT-focused arm of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service issued a request for quotes searching for program management support for GSA’s Open Innovation Program, which manages two public-focused
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R&D Collaboration Offers Hope in an Age of Uncertainty
The Cambridge Network website noted that while economists sought to rejig their models following the financial crisis, adjusting for a pandemic, the likelihood of a cure and a whole range of science and tech related variables in between presents a far greater challenge. Open innovation in research has
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Winners of Vale COVID-19 Challenge Winners Announced
The Global Newswire website reported that on April 3, the Vale COVID-19 challenge was launched in Canada to help propel innovative COVID-19 solutions. A total of nearly 1,800 solutions were submitted globally, of which over 300 came from within Canada. After careful review, 11 solutions were selected
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Challenges and Benefits of SMEs in Bangladesh to Adopt Open Innovation
The Global Scientific Journal website reported on a study which examines the challenges and benefits of SMEs in Bangladesh to adopt open innovation. The study revealed that challenges of SMEs have significant effects on open innovation. The study also revealed that the independent variable “lacking
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With Whom and How SMEs Share Their Open Innovation Journey?
The University of Brighton website posted a research study aimed at defining patterns of successful pathways in open innovation (OI) journeys of SMEs. The main findings up to this point indicate that from the total range of twenty-four possible OI moves, only ten are really important for OI journeys
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Open Innovation Fights COVID-19
The Yet2 website reported that many companies are turning to open innovation to combat the challenges we’re facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ford Motor Company is one company that is taking on COVID-19. Ford announced it is joining forces with firms including 3M, GE Healthcare, and the
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Proposal-Based Innovation: A New Approach to Opening Up the Innovation Process
The book Innovative Technologies for Market Leadership has a chapter on Proposal-Based Innovation which noted that Open Innovation (OI), is widespread in nonmanufacturing industries such as software. In manufacturing, however, OI is largely rejected mainly due to high intellectual property (IP) protection
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Prosegur Seeks Start-ups to Create COVID-19 Free Spaces
The Business Wire website reported that in the coming weeks, millions of citizens will be ending their quarantine periods and gradually returning to work. This return to the “new normal” must be done under strict security measures to avoid the appearance of new sources of infection, ensuring COVID-19-free
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