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Report on 3rd Annual WOIC
The Spring 2017 Newsletter of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation reported on the 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) held at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain December 15 – 16, 2016. The WOIC created an international platform for academics and industry practitioners to collaborate and exchange ideas on Open
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Open Innovation Using Open Source Tools
The Springer website posted an article, “Open innovation using open source tools: A a case study at Sony Mobile,” which noted that despite growing interest of Open Innovation (OI) in Software Engineering (SE), little is known about what triggers software organizations to adopt it and how
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Open Innovation and Federal R&D
The EPA website noted that Open Innovation approaches, from crowdsourcing to prize competitions, are being adopted by federal agencies at an accelerating rate over the last ten years. At the EPA, the Office of Research and Development has worked to embrace these new tools with success in a variety of
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The Creative Potential Of (Some) Outsiders
An article on the Forbes website reported that research and professional experience in open innovation models suggest that creative breakthroughs often come from unlikely sources, whom the authors call adjacent outsiders — those who are an outsider to your company or industry but have acquired some
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Working With Your Competitors
The University of Calgary website posted a new study from the Haskayne School of Business which examines 20 years of ‘open innovation’ in the Canadian energy industry. The authors found that industry finds it easier to employ open innovation methods to address strictly non-competitive environmental
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World Open Innovation Conference Call for Papers
The World Open Innovation Conference website announced a call for papers for the 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) to be held in San Francisco Dec. 13-15. The conference theme is “Strategic and Public Policies for Open Innovation”. The goal of the WOIC is to bring theory
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Placing Users At The Core Of Innovation Strategies
The Forbes website posted a review of the book Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation. The book includes 25 original contributions providing an extensive view of user and open innovation by scholars from all over the world in a variety of industries. The book underscores
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European Companies Engage with Startups to Innovate
The Betanews website noted that a new report by Samsung, “The Open Economy,” showed that businesses are changing the way they’re innovating and are focusing on bringing in and collaborating with young and inspiring start-ups. Almost all European corporations surveyed (97 percent) have carefully
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Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems
The Harvard Business School website posted an article which noted that platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches change how they conduct business and interact with their environments. This paper considers
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Influence of Industry on the Implementation of OI Practices
The Doria.fi website posted a study which is an analysis of Open Innovation (OI) at the level of industry. The purpose of the study is to analyze interdependencies between the type of industry and implementation of OI practices and make a coherent review of industries showing differences in implementation
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