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Open Innovation in Science
The LGB website reported that in an Open Innovation project unique to Europe, dubbed “Tell us!”, the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft has brought patients, family members and healthcare professionals into the effort of generating research questions. Austrian State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Science Dr. Harald Mahrer reported that
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Promotion of Collaborative Skills in an OI Environment
The Journal of Open Innovation published a research article which addressed the question how to promote individuals’ openness. The study was organized in an open environment, in which students worked in teams for solving real life problems in order to create new products and services. They had
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Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurs to Open Innovation
A report by Accenture noted that one beacon that has drawn large companies and entrepreneurs together is “open innovation,” a concept introduced more than a decade ago that has since become a catchphrase for a broader and deeper form of collaboration. Yet they contend in this report that large companies
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Cultural Barriers to Achieving Open Innovation
The Business Wire website reported that as corporations seek greater revenues from working with entrepreneurs, large and small businesses are failing to use digital collaboration to innovate together, according to new research by Accenture. As a result, they are putting at risk a $1.5 trillion growth
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To Succeed Innovative Companies Need to Be Decisive in Opening-Up
Virtual Strategy Magazine reported that results from a new national survey shows companies adopting open innovation (OI) to out-pace competitors and lead their industries in an increasingly aggressive global landscape. The research was conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of NineSigma, and tapped over
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2nd Open Innovation Conference Nov 19-20
The Corporate Innovation site at UC Berkeley announced the second World Open Innovation Conference will held in Santa Clara, Calif. on Nov. 19 and 20. It will gather a healthy number of industry speakers and participants, and put them alongside an equally healthy number of academic professors and researchers
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NASA Tests Open Innovation Challenges
The NextGov website reported that NASA is seeking researchers to evaluate technology design contests, and to use data analytics to formulate better challenges. The agency is attempting to examine its “Open Innovation” programs — often large, crowdsourced design challenges open to
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Technology Based Firms, Strategic Alliances and Open Innovation
An article in the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research examines the impact of strategic partnerships and open innovation on the success of new biotechnology firms by developing multiple case studies of firms in regional biotechnology clusters. The study finds that, despite their small size and
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Open Innovation: Getting Better Ideas
The Harvard Business Review website noted that if you gather consumers consumers together to generate ideas, you’ll usually get more participation and more creativity than if you asked those same people individually to put ideas in a suggestion box. But these gatherings quickly find their creativity
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Open Innovation: Working Together
The Imagination at Lancaster (University) website reports that as part of the Optex project with the Swedish research Institute Innventia, Leon Cruickshank traveled to Stockholm to give a keynote presentation on the benefits (and perils) of Open Innovation. This presentation demonstrated how the academic
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