Section » Entrepreneurship
How News Organizations Use Open Innovation in their Product Development Strategy
At the International Symposium on Online Journalism which took place in April 2011, Seth Lewis, a teacher at the University of Minnesota, and Tanja Aitamurto, a Finnish Ph.D student working as a visiting researcher at Stanford, released a paper on the ways in which top news organizations — like The New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian — have created
More Articles
Rally Fighter: The First Open Source Car
Local Motors, an Arizona-based company which was founded in 2007, creates car designs through a series of open innovation and crowdsourcing initiatives. Click here to
How Open Innovation Affects the Content of IP Agreements
In a post on the IP Draughts blog, the author outlines various connections that are commonly made between an open innovation approach and particular terms in IP agreements. Click here
General Mills Open Innovation Challenge to Stop Apples from Browning
“General Mills is seeking a partner to help it develop a natural alternative to sulfites to stop dried apples in its products going brown. The request – posted on its G-WIN innovation platform – is just one of several technical challenges the Minneapolis-based firm has asked potential
Resources for Learning About Open Innovation
Rebecca Fernandez, a freelance business writer, posted an article on opensource.com which includes links to various resources for those wanting to learn about open innovation. Two of the experts featured are Professor Henry Chesbrough and Stefan Lindegaard.
Open Innovation – An Emerging Hope for Biopharma?
David Shaywitz, in his “Science Business” blog on Forbes.com, discusses the need for open innovation in drug discovery. Click here to read the full article.
Recap of Fraunhofer IAO’s Open Innovation Forum
Fraunhofer IAO’s third Open Innovation Forum took place last week and Stefanie Mainwaring reflected on her experience in a post on the Brightidea blog. Click here to read the article,
BMW’s Customer-Led Open Innovation Competition
BMW’s open innovation contest, “Tomorrow’s Urban Mobility Services,” sought innovative ideas for mobility services in cities and metropolitan areas in the future.
Press Release: Coral CEA Invites New Corporate Members to Join Expanding Software Ecosystem
“Similar to the Eclipse Foundation, a founding investor, Coral CEA is a developer network focused on the build-out of a member-based software ecosystem. Unlike Eclipse’s Open Source model, Coral CEA pursues commercialization through Open Innovation — a business model that combines
2011 Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop in Vienna
The 2011 Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop will be held from July 4-6, 2011 in Vienna, Austria. Abstracts will be accepted until April 17. Presentation submissions (for mini-talk/long session or roundtable session) are open until May 31. Click