6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

The 6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference will be held in Rome, Italy on Dec. 12-13. Open Innovation experts will combine their business experience with transformational objectives, with academic perspectives on societal challenges. This year’s conference theme: “Opening Up for Managing Business

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ABFRL Launches Innovation Challenge to Find Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

The Outlook India website reported that Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) has launched a first-of-its-kind open Innovation Challenge with Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF) to spearhead a change in packaging and find innovative alternatives to plastics. India generates almost 26,000

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The Naval Technology website reported that the French company Naval Group has launched a research and development center of excellence in Singapore to develop world-class expertise for strategic naval defense research topics. In June this year, the company organized Start We Up, an innovation marathon

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How to Fight Rare Diseases with Radically Open Innovation

The Economist website reported that when told he would die and be given the last rites, a medical student decided to hunt for a cure from his hospital bed. He found one and survived. Now a doctor in his own right, David Fajgenbaum is pioneering a new approach to fighting rare diseases through an open

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Open Innovation: High Hopes and Many Challenges

The ProQuest website posted the abstract and beginning of an article which noted that during recent years different variants of IT-enabled public sector open innovation have been proposed as ways of overcoming the difficulties that public sector organizations face in terms of – on one side –

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How Does Open Innovation Lead Competitive Advantage?

The Plos One website noted that the relationship between open innovation and a company’s competitive advantage, and organizational capabilities required remains to be explained. This study was conducted to answer the following questions: Does open innovation create organization’s competitive

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Startup HaiLa Winner of the 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

The FinancialBuzz website reported that the Canadian startup company HaiLa, which offers technologies that can drastically reduce energy consumption for Internet of Things devices, has won the 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge. HaiLa was awarded €100,000 in financial resources. HaiLa beat out more

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Managing Open Innovation: A Project-Level Perspective

The IEEExpress website noted that project-level studies on open innovation management are still scant and there is a lack of quantitative insights. Based on a survey designed to collect detailed data from 201 innovation projects, this article provides a quantitative cross-project analysis of how two,

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The Purchasing Innovation Function, an Interface Player in Open Innovation

The HAL website reported that the benefits of Open Innovation, and specifically of innovation coming from suppliers, are widely emphasized by the literature. In parallel, the difficulties of implementing such approaches are also underlined, and the necessity of creating new roles is emphasized for managing

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