Section » In Practice
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
Comments Off on Open Innovation Challenge: Next Big Thing for Corn • Read this story »
More Articles
Report on 3rd Annual WOIC
The Spring 2017 Newsletter of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation reported on the 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) held at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain December 15 – 16, 2016. The WOIC created an international platform for academics and industry practitioners
Comments Off on Report on 3rd Annual WOIC • Read this story »
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
Comments Off on Reducing Food Waste through Open Innovation • Read this story »
Japanese Startup Opening in the US
The CampaignAsia website reported that Japan market leaders are looking ardently for new technologies they can leverage such as AI, IoT and blockchain. To do that, they are increasingly accepting the principles of open innovation. “Open innovation with startups can accelerate the speed of the corporation
Comments Off on Japanese Startup Opening in the US • Read this story »
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,
Comments Off on GE: How to Join Open Innovation Now • Read this story »
How Amazon Turned Their Services into a Platform
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation website posted an article which noted that it is not safe to rely on only excellent service to sustain your competitive advantage as a services provider because competitors will learn from you. A more robust approach is to turn your service into a platform
Comments Off on How Amazon Turned Their Services into a Platform • Read this story »
The Forefront of Health Technology Innovation
The Newswire website noted that what if researchers, physicians, engineers, patients, students, equipment vendors, and public health system stakeholders all worked together to devise the medical technologies of tomorrow? That is the founding vision behind the TransMedTech Institute. The Institute is
Comments Off on The Forefront of Health Technology Innovation • Read this story »
Honda Embraces Open Innovation
The Nikkei Asian Review reported that the proudly self-sufficient Honda Motors is now reaching out to partners in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving to keep up as new technology alters the nature of cars. The conventional wisdom in the auto industry is undergoing big changes. Technology is
Comments Off on Honda Embraces Open Innovation • Read this story »
FCC: Close the Digital Divide with Open Innovation
The Tech Policy Daily website reported that in a break from central planning of the broadband economy, the Federal Communications Commission launched the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), a diverse group of experts tasked with making recommendations on how to accelerate the deployment of
Comments Off on FCC: Close the Digital Divide with Open Innovation • Read this story »
Open Innovation: Modernizing Agriculture
The Crop Science website posted an article describing how Bayer is implementing open innovation. Bayer has an internal platform (called WeSolve) that allows employees to submit challenging questions and seek answers from their colleagues. Additionally, Bayer reaches out to creative minds all over the
Comments Off on Open Innovation: Modernizing Agriculture • Read this story »