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New Frontiers in Open Innovation
The Popular Online website posted an announcement of a new book, “New Frontiers in Open Innovation” edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West. Although the benefits of open innovation have been described in detail before, underlying mechanisms how companies can be successful open innovators have not been understood well.
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SMEs and Open Innovation
The Kobo website reported on the new book, “SMEs and Open Innovation”: Open innovation has been widely implemented in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the aim of influencing business promotion, value gain, and economic empowerment. However, little is known about the processes used
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Haas School of Business on Online Learning
The Benzinga website announced that the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley has, in partnership with EIT Digital, developed the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Innovation & Entrepreneurship: From Basics to Open Innovation. This MOOC is part of the course Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong
The Harvard Business Review website posted an article which noted that “For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s
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Report on Open Innovation Education
The OI-Net website posted a “Report on Industrial Needs for Open Innovation Education.” This report provides the summary of the data and some conclusions on open innovation activities adoption, open innovation needs, and skills and abilities that open innovation specialists should have.
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Siemens to Host Young Researchers Competition
The DotMed website reported that Siemens, together with the Stiftung Jugend forscht, will host Germany’s best-known youth researchers competition in Erlangen, Germany, on May 25-28, 2017. Joe Kaeser, Siemens President and CEO, said that the conference brings together the brightest young people
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Open Science and Open Innovation
The SSRN website posted the abstract of a paper by Joel West on Open Science and Open Innovation: Sourcing Knowledge from Universities: “In this chapter, we investigate how firms work with universities in the course of their innovation activities. We provide an overview of three main modes of direct
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Open Innovation Case Studies
The IMI website announced a symposium at the 6th Pharmaceutical Science World Congress: “Putting open innovation into practice–case studies from Europe”. The congress will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on on May 21 to 24, 2017. IMI is working to facilitate open innovation among the
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An Alliance Portfolio for Innovation in the Auto Industry
A study in the Journal of Open Innovation concluded that companies promoting innovation must preferentially adopt an open innovation strategy. In particular, companies should maintain a long-term cooperative partnership with a clear goal of technology acquisition, reduce alliance portfolio management
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Open Innovation in Large Firms
A survey of large firms in the U.S. and Germany found that: * 78 % of firms in the sample report practicing open innovation. * No firms in the sample report abandoning their practice of open innovation. * 71 % report that top management support for open innovation is increasing in their firm. *
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