Section » Entrepreneurship
Call for Nominations Open for Second Annual Spike Awards
Kalypso, an innovation consulting firm, is now accepting nominations for the second annual Spike Awards. The Spike Awards recognize companies using social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management. Nominations are being accepted online now through September 2, 2011 at
More Articles
Pharmaceutical Innovation Hits the Wall: How Open Innovation Can Help
A recent article in the New York Times announced the frightening reality facing the pharmaceutical industry: within the next year, drugs with sales of more than $50 billion are coming off patent. Left unsaid was that the incredible profits associated with these sales are also coming to an end in
Helping Japan Through Open Innovation
In her article on InnovationManagement’s website, Amelia Johannsen highlights the open innovation campaign “Your Idea for Japan” by the innovation agency HYVE. “Everyone worldwide interested and concerned is asked to make his or her creative contribution in finding concrete solutions, how to
Role of Marketing Departments in Open Innovation Efforts
According to Lisa Thorell, “several actors within the marketing department, from market research, corporate communications, channel marketing, to marketing programs, may all play key parts at the very outset of partner negotiations to decrease time to market and reduce business risk” when small companies
How Can We Create Co-editing of Ideas Between Investors?
We-Decide, a new platform for companies to manage the inclusion of their external and internal stakeholders in an open innovation process, has published details of a new campaign. “How can we create co-editing between an idea creator and follow-on investors? What minimum and maximum criterion? Timing?
The War for Talent and Open Innovation
Much has been written about the war for talent in American business. We need to hire the best and the brightest in order to compete effectively in the global economy. This leads to impassioned arguments for raising the ceiling on H1B visas, and providing provisional green cards to foreign-born
Living Well Through Collaboration
In her Forbes.com column “Living Well through Collaboration,” Deborah Mills Scofield provides a recap of a speech at the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW’s Center for Innovation & Growth where Craig Vogel, President of Live Well Collaborative (LWC), discussed what it is like to be one of P&G’s
Case Study: Innovation in Sanitation Technology
Daily Crowdsource recently published the article “Open Innovation Tackles India’s Sanitation Solutions,” highlighting a case study in which an Indo-Dutch consortium searched for an innovative design to help provide rural India with a clean and functional sanitation system.
The Different Taxonomies of Open Innovation
Professor Henry Chesbrough speaks with Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Director of the Management Lab. This interview originally appeared on the MIX
Open Innovation Within Horizontal and Vertical Organizations
Although both vertically and horizontally integrated companies have moved forward with adapting open innovation concepts, the resulting innovation processes are distinct. Click here