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Singapore Fintech Festival a Success
The Fintech Times reported that the Singapore Fintech Festival attracted 60,000 participants from over 160 countries. A number of open innovation challenges were reported. The Food Waste National Innovation Challenge was launched by the National Environment Agency to address the sustainable and automated segregation, disposal and treatment of food
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Johnson & Johnson Invests in China for Healthcare Innovation
The China Economic Net website reported that global healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has vowed to further promote an innovation strategy to support China and the world to fight the pandemic and advance the development of public health. With a number of innovative products, technologies and solutions
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7th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
The Seventh Annual World Open Innovation Conference will be held virtually Dec. 10-11. Conference Chair Henry Chesbrough said, “Due to continuing safety concerns and public health restrictions with respect to large gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation,
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Civil Servants Must Embrace ‘New Mindsets’ in a ‘Tech-Powered New Normal’
The Philippine Information Agency reported that Associate Professor Naomi Aoki of the University of Tokyo came up with four mindsets that must be embodied by civil servants as regulators of the use of technologies and as policymakers. First is to be receptive to open innovation. According to Aoki,
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Stakeholder-Driven Conceptualization of Open Innovation Approaches in the SYNERGY Project
A new book Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2020 has a chapter on open innovation which notes that since the late 90s, the way companies acquire novel ideas and bring resulting products to the market is in a paradigm shift moving towards open innovation concepts and making use of crowd-based approaches.
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Red Hat Summit 2020 Stresses Importance of Open Innovation and Collaboration
The SD Times website reported that at the Red Hat Summit Red Hat president Paul Cormier said “Open solves problems that any one company with a single company agenda might not do on their own. Open takes the best ideas from all perspectives and allows the best idea to win.” It does this by having
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Fear of Looking Foolish
The HAL website posted an overview of a presentation Henry Chesbrough and Sea Matilda Bez gave at the World Open Innovation Conference in Rome this past December. The authors note that managers are myopic in their evaluation of technology; why don’t managers search for alternative business models for
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Open Innovation in the Global Automotive Ecosystem
The Yahoo Finance website reported that today’s global automotive ecosystem is defined through collaborative efforts, not just from automotive manufacturers and suppliers, but by the integration of technology from multiple sources. Leading global automotive supplier Cooper Standard understands
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The Legacy of Science Commissioner, Carlos Moedas
The SciTech Europa website posted an interview by Science|Business’s Managing Director, Maryline Fiaschi with the European Union’s Science Commissioner, Carlos Moedas. Fiaschi maintained that the Commission has perhaps made the most progress during Moedas’s five-year tenure with open innovation,
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6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
The 6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference will be held in Rome, Italy on Dec. 12-13. Open Innovation experts will combine their business experience with transformational objectives, with academic perspectives on societal challenges. This year’s conference theme: “Opening Up for Managing Business
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