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A New Approach for Detecting Open Innovation in Patents
The Springer website posted an article from The Journal of Technology Transfer which discusses to what extent open innovation is utilized in R&D departments by using patents as a main source. The paper adopts the “designation of the inventor” as a new method for detecting open or closed innovation, a method which examines the type of relationship
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A Theory of Resource Openness
The Researchgate website posted a research paper which noted that many firms have opened once proprietary information resources (e.g., digital content, code, and APIs) to public use via the Internet. Such open strategies challenge traditional resource-level theories that suggest protecting such resources
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Assessing the Breadth of Open Innovation Practices
Sinergie, the Italian Journal of Management, posted a research paper which first, aims to identify open innovation practices (OIP) used by empirical studies in the context of the open innovation (OI) field. Second, it aims to test the inverted U-shaped relationship between the breadth of OIP and innovation
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How to make IoT in business work for you
The Ericsson website noted that finding a business model that secures your enterprise’s future and enables a competitive advantage requires thinking out of the box. Within the Internet of Things (IoT), the mass deployment of sensors and high-resolution data enables new business models for industries
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The Relationship Between Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
The Researchgate website posted an article which noted that there are two important differences between open innovation and crowdsourcing. First, the knowledge inflows/outflows of open innovation often take place between parties with ex ante contracts or other commitments. For example, technology alliances,
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Japan’s Healthcare Innovation
The Gulf News website reported that the top ten Japanese pharmaceutical firms have established open innovation initiatives that extend beyond the typical pharma remit, encompassing new digital health services and medical devices. Similarly, medical device manufacturers like Olympus, Konica Minolta, Terumo
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Tech to Protect Challenge
The City College of New York (CUNY) website reported that The Grove School of Engineering at CUNY is a regional co-sponsor and host of the New York City Tech to Protect Challenge, a national open innovation contest designed to help emergency responders—including EMS, firefighters, and law enforcement—meet
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In Search of Disruptive Ideas
The InsideScienceOnline website noted that the key challenge for data science in open innovation web systems is to find best ideas among thousands of community submissions. To date, this has been done with metrics reflecting enterprise needs or community preferences. This article proposes to look in
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NASA Space App Challenge 2019
The Fossbytes website reported that the NASA Space App Challenge 2019 is an open innovation and incubation program. It’s meant to publicly share data to come up with some unique and meaningful solutions to several problems related to space and on Earth. A NASA spokesperson noted, “We usually see
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How Open Innovation Can Sharpen Competitive Edge
The Economic Times website website reported that business innovation, no longer confined to corporate R&D labs, is increasingly the results of collaborative efforts between business partners that interact, exchange knowledge and information and share standards and infrastructure. This shift towards
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