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Open Innovation Challenge: Next Big Thing for Corn
The KTIC website reported that the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with innovation facilitator NineSigma, has announced the launch of a global competition to identify new and innovative uses for field corn. “Many industries are adopting an open innovation approach because of its success in accelerating access to new solutions and innovation
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Open Innovation: Crowdsourcing for Ideas
The Ontario Centres for Excellence website reported that the approach of open innovation is now being leveraged by government and non-profit organizations to tackle some of the greatest challenges faced by humanity. By identifying a problem and offering incentives to solution providers to bring forward
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Reducing Food Waste through Open Innovation
The Rockefeller Foundation website reported on a new open innovation challenge: At OpenIDEO, we believe that collaboration fosters innovation. When faced with the world’s most pressing challenges, we’ve been awed by the power of working together rather than in silos. And our aspiration to use open
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GE: How to Join Open Innovation Now
The Industry Week website reported that General Electric’s GeniusLink is the internal profit center coordinating all open innovation efforts for GE, and non-GE organizations that choose to work with them. The company has developed FUSE, a platform similar to that of NineSigma Innocentive, TopCoder,
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Placing Users At The Core Of Innovation Strategies
The Forbes website posted a review of the book Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation. The book includes 25 original contributions providing an extensive view of user and open innovation by scholars from all over the world in a variety of industries. The book underscores
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Data for Climate Action Challenge
The BusinessWire website reported that Global Pulse, the UN innovation initiative on big data, and Western Digital Corporation, a global leader in data storage technologies and solutions, have launched a “Data for Climate Action” challenge. Data for Climate Action is an unprecedented open innovation
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Open Innovation Challenge for External Innovators
The Renewablepackaging website reported that Stora Enso invited international teams of scientists, developers, and designers to look for new ways to tell the story of their sustainable products. Co-operation with startups has an increasingly important role in innovating both new technologies and business
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Citi Launches Tech for Integrity Challenge
The Finextra website reported that the investment bank Citi has launched the Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I), a major effort to encourage technology innovators from around the world to create cutting-edge solutions to promote integrity, accountability and transparency in the public sector and
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Unlocking a Hotel Innovation Strategy
The Hotelier website reported on the use of open innovation in sparking innovation in the hospitality industry. There is a leading group of hospitality firms that not only keep up with the pace of innovation but are able to innovate the very way they provide customers with enhanced experiences. They
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MIT’s Open Innovation Platform Launches New Challenges
The MIT News website announced that Solve, MIT’s open innovation platform for tackling global problems, has launched three new challenges dealing with reducing carbon emissions, preventing chronic diseases, and educating 50 million young refugees. Solve is actively convening a community to support
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