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Innovation Could Solve Some of our Thorniest Global Problems
An article on the Boston Globe website noted that we cannot solve today’s complex multi-dimensional challenges by foreign aid, by public services, or by philanthropy alone. No one actor has all the answers or the monopoly of good ideas. Cross-sector cooperation — working with the public, private and non-profit sectors — is more critical now than
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Aussie Fintech Wins Barclays’ Global Open Innovation Challenge
The PR Newswire website reported that Aussie trade financing deep technology startup, Trade Ledger finished ahead of nine other VC-backed companies from across the world to be named the winner of the Barclays UK Ventures Open Innovation Challenge. “Within Barclays UK Ventures, we’re
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Open Innovation in Financial Services
The IT Business Net website reported that the Symphony Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting open innovation in financial services, announces its launch as the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS). The FINOS brand reflects the Foundation’s expanded mission of providing an independent
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Realizing the Value of Open Innovation
The Big Innovation Centre posted a report which noted that while the specific term ‘Open Innovation’ was only popularized relatively recently – by Berkeley Professor Henry Chesbrough in 2003, based primarily on observations of technology firms – the broader underlying dynamics of the change
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The Reinvention of NASA
The Harvard Business Review reported that over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. NASA has moved
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Creating Collaborative Ecosystems through Open Innovation
The Lancaster University website reported that Professor Solomon Darwin will deliver a talk on May 11 at the Lancaster University Management School. He will describe, via a number of case studies, how the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation has created and continues to nurture an ecosystem of corporations
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New “Organizational Moonshots” Course
The UC Berkeley website reported that Berkeley Haas Business School adjunct professor Henry Chesbrough, who directs the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and is known as the father of “Open Innovation,” has made the concept of a “Moonshot” the center of a new course called “Organizational
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MetLife Joins the MIT Media Lab
The Digital Journal website reported that MetLife has established a multi-year collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on accelerating innovative technologies that will transform the insurance industry. The announcement furthers MetLife’s innovation approach of bringing
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Tips for Creating Open Innovation Structures
The Utility Week website noted that it seems many organizations are talking about creating open structures for customer-led innovation – but how do you practically make it happen? Whatever sector you work in there are a huge rise in the number of teams being setup to “drive change” and “promote
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User-Driven Innovation
The DT News website noted that innovation with users is a key feature of sustainable firms that are keen to add-value and access new markets. Innovation driven by insight from users and customers helps firms and public sector to devise sound products that meets users’ needs. The pioneering work of
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