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Henry Chesbrough on Open Services Innovation
In his CalBusiness article, Bill Snyder examines the concepts within Professor Henry Chesbrough’s new book Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era. Click here to read the full article. . .
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Nike’s Lorrie Vogel Discusses the Environmental Apparel Design Tool
In an interview published in BARE magazine, Lorrie Vogel, General Manager of Nike’s Considered Design, discusses their open innovation tool which provides designers with resources to make environmentally-friendly decisions while creating their products.
Open Innovation Modeling Using Game Theory
In their article which appeared in the July 2011 issue of Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal, authors Arben Asllani and Alireza Lari look at open innovation modeling using game theory. According to Asllani and Lari, “Game theory is useful tool for making decisions in cases where
Open Innovation in the Semiconductor Design Community
HSINCHU, Taiwan, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) announced today that 28nm support within the Open Innovation Platform™ (OIP) design infrastructure is
How the Internet is Revitalizing the Innovation Prize Model
In his May 21 “New York Times” online article “Change the World, and Win Fabulous Prizes,” Steve Lohr provides a history of the prize model and discusses current open innovation contests. Josh Lerner, a professor at the Harvard Business School, is quoted in the article and explains that the proliferation
Strategy + Business Thought Leader Interview with Henry Chesbrough
In a conversation with “strategy + business,” Professor Henry Chesbrough argues that for companies “to escape the commodity trap — and to compete effectively in a knowledge-based economy — business leaders of all kinds need to reinvent themselves as innovators in services.”
How Open Innovation is Giving College Graduates a Leg Up in the Job Market
NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — While hiring has started to show signs of an uptick, 2011 college graduates flooding the job market this month face compounded competition from the backlog of job-seekers still searching for entry-level positions. According to Department of Labor statistics,
Case Study: CivicApps for Greater Portland
The city of Portland, Oregon launched an open innovation competition where its citizens “were invited to create apps from data sets that would address important civic issues and benefit the greater Portland community.” According to a case study on IdeaConnection’s website, “The overall winner
Insight from NineSigma’s Open Innovation Leadership Summit
“From Hallmark Cards, which invented augmented-reality greeting cards to improve its top line, to General Motors, which partnered with NASA to develop a robotic assistant to supplement human activity, the message is clear: collaborating on innovation is not an option; it’s a competitive necessity. That
Open Innovation and the Design of Innovation Work
I recently had the chance to review a pre-press copy of a new book, The Open Innovation Marketplace, by Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin (Free Press, 2011). The authors are Chairman and CEO, respectively, of the company Innocentive. Innocentive is a pioneer in the “open innovation marketplace”