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Three Startups Win First-Ever Colgate Connect Challenge
Business Wire reported that Colgate-Palmolive announced the winners of the Colgate Connect Challenge, its first-ever global pitch competition aimed at startups from around the world focused on developing world-changing products to promote healthy futures. The challenge sought to connect Colgate with external startups offering innovative solutions in
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IESE Expands Its Open Innovation Activity
The WFMZ website reported that IESE Business School –supported by Amazon Web Services, Nestlé, MediaMarkt, Fnac, Kapita, and more– is expanding its global activity in open innovation and corporate venturing. According to a recent IESE article in Harvard Business Review: although the collaboration
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2021 Corporate Startup Stars Awards
The Trade Arabia website reported that for the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporates they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. “When adopting an open innovation model, companies don’t look to generate
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A Study of Specific Open Innovation Issues from Perspectives of Open Source and Resources
The MPDI website posted a study which noted that it is difficult for enterprises to adapt to the rapidly developing market demand and increasingly intense competition by relying only on internal resources to carry out innovation activities. We identify three new issues for the Cross-Functional Consortium
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Adio and Plug and Play Reveal List of Founding Partners for Innovation Platform
The National News website reported that global tech accelerator Plug and Play Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office has finalized the list of founding partners for a new platform designed to boost innovation in the industrial sector and attract high-caliber tech start-ups to the emirate. The
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Pfizer, AXA and Xiaomi named Corporate Startup Stars 2021
The International Chamber of Commerce website reported that for the sixth year running, startups were asked to nominate for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Award companies they believed to be most active in open innovation. Pfizer won first place followed by AXA and Xiaomi. French Secretary
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These Mexican FinTech and EdTech startups got Wayra Hispan to Invest in Them
The Entreprenuer website reported that the open innovation hub and corporate fund of Telefónica Movistar México, Wayra Hispam, invested in two promising Mexican startups of FinTech and EdTech. Savvy investors have repeatedly pointed out that startups focused on the FinTec and EdTech sectors have every
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Plug and Play to Open Largest Innovation Center in Hyderabad, India
PRNewswire reported that Saeed Amidi, Founder and CEO of Plug and Play said that Plug and Play, one of the world’s largest early-stage investor, accelerator, and corporate innovation platforms globally is opening its India operations in Q1, 2022. Plug and Play currently has over 35 office locations
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Making Innovation Work for All in Denver
The Denver Business Journal reported on CU Denver’s 2030 Strategic Plan: We will, for example, put our research and creative muscle in the service of solving society’s grand challenges, starting with the creation of an open innovation district in the heart of downtown Denver, anchored by our campus.
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How a Chilean Firm Can Help Create a Mining Innovation Hub in Colombia
The Bnamericas website reported that South African miner AngloGold Ashanti and Chilean innovation firm Quintil Valley recently signed an alliance to promote open innovation projects for sustainable mining. “Open innovation, as an alternative for the continent’s mining sector, is a great opportunity
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