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Sustaining Innovation: Creativity among Employees of SMEs
The Journal of Open Innovation posted an article which compares creativity experiences and perceptions among employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and students in higher education institutions. The findings indicate a majority in both groups have not received prior instruction in creativity and that employees of SMEs have less interest
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From Collaborative Community to Competitive Market
The Wiley Online Library posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and Thomas Kohler which noted that crowdsourcing presents new opportunities to generate social innovation. However, many crowdsourcing social innovation initiatives struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms.
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The Pioneer Trail Towards Open Innovation
The 150SEC.com website reported that the Vienna based startup incubator, Pioneers, is holding its annual flagship event, Pioneers 2019, in the Austrian capital from May 9th-10th. The theme for the two-day event is open innovation. A global community of selected startups, executives and investors join
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Selecting an Open Innovation community as an Alliance Partner
The ScienceDirect website reported on a study which noted that organizations build strategic alliances with other firms with the intent of tapping into partners’ resources and capturing long-term value from these relationships. Such partnerships are typically governed by contractual or equity arrangements
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Advancing Biological Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
The Harvard Business School website posted an article which noted that researchers use open innovation competitions to benchmark their solutions to a particular computational problem, or to generalize their methodologies to instances of the problem for which a solution is unknown. Past examples demonstrate
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Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation
The R&D Management journal posted an article which noted that in recent years, public sector organizations have increasingly focused on citizen contribution by adopting instruments known from open innovation. A more open approach to innovation has become dominant in innovation management during
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Creativity and Stakeholders’ Engagement in Open Innovation
The Journal of Business Research posted a paper which investigates the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism for social creativity in technology-intensive enterprises’ open innovation practices. The focus is on how design can be used to connect and combine the contribution of creativity
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Open for Innovation: Why Engaged Firms Are More Creative
The Bertelsmann Stiftung website posted a report which discussed how soft knowledge flows from businesses’ corporate citizenship activities can enrich the hard business of innovation. Beyond conventional Open Innovation (OI) partnerships with startups, suppliers or universities, business-civil society
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The Dynamics of Openness and the Role of User Communities
The IEEE Journal posted an article which noted that to remain competitive, it is critical for firms to integrate external sources of knowledge. However, finding the right degree of openness is challenging, especially in complex open innovation ecosystems. This paper investigates the role of openness
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Open Science and Open Innovation in Socio-Political Context
The University of East Anglia website posted the abstract of a new study which traces the origins and progress of Open Science and proposes its generative coupling to Open Innovation in the contemporary socio-political context. It identifies the co-evolution, co-existence and co-production of Open
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