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Harnessing the Power of Open Innovation
The ATD website reported that a new General Accountability Office report has found that open innovation—the practice of using external ideas and people to make positive change in an organization—is making inroads in the federal government. In fact, federal agencies have taken to
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Need a Breakthrough? Offer Prize Money!
The Wall Street Journal website noted that, stumped for solutions to hundreds of industrial and technical problems, businesses and governments alike are turning the search for innovative ideas into prize-worthy puzzles that capitalize on the ingenuity of the crowd. These incentive competitions are part
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Agropur launches Inno Challenge
The Newscoop website reported that a major player in the Canadian dairy industry, Agropur Co-operative, has launched the Inno Challenge, an initiative to create new dairy products. With this project, Agropur is looking at creating new products through open innovation. Agropur’s project is themed “Together,
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AES Launches Open Innovation Contest
Businesswire reported that the AES Corporation announced an open innovation contest targeted at improving the safety and increasing availability of power plants through unmanned inspections in extreme heat. AES in partnership with NineSigma is looking for innovative unmanned technologies to conduct inspection
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A Global Start-up Network
The Medical Plastics News website reported that a networking space, designed as a venue for collaboration between start-ups, industrial companies and partners from the global innovation ecosystem Cube has been opened in Berlin. The space offers selected start-ups the chance to work with companies on
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Canada to Reinvent Dairy Products Thru Open Innovation
The Wisconsinagconnection website reported that Agropur Cooperative, in partnership with the Quartier de l’innovation de Montreal, AgBioCentre and NineSigma, have announced the launch of Inno Challenge, an initiative to create new dairy products through open innovation. This is a Canadian first
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Nokia Open Innovation Challenge 2016 Winners
The Yahoo Finance website announced that start-ups with innovative products focusing on the connected home, digital health and big data have taken the top three spots in Nokia’s 2016 Open Innovation Challenge, beating a tough field of over 400 entries in a competition which looks for the next big
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How Open Innovation Competitions Can Help Solve Problems
The Eco-business website reported that while complex issues cannot be solved overnight, open innovation competitions can bring new technologies and talent together to create new ideas that can change the way we view issues such as food waste. Food waste, which has emerged as a key environmental concern
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NYC Working To Merge Government With Innovation
The Fastcoexist website reported that two new open innovation challenges were launched recently to ferret out ideas, from the private sector, for reducing electric bills without taking away residents’ control of their own apartments and, in a smaller number of buildings, reduce steam heating bills.
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Innovation, Connected: NASA
The Forbes website reported that NASA scientists are working to introduce the open innovation approach to multiple problems affecting not only space travel, but enterprises as well – at the same time, providing an energetic boost to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills development.
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