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UNITAR to co-host Session on “Reinforcing SDGs through Open Innovation”
Mirage News reported that on 28 September 2021, UNITAR and the University of Geneva, co-chairing the University Global Coalition Working Group on Open Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will host a session on “Reinforcing the SDGs through open innovation” in the 2021 University Global Coalition Annual Conference “Building Connections
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United Inventors Association Announces Inspire 2021
PRNewswire reported that The United Inventors Association of America, a national non-profit dedicated to educating inventors, patent holders and product developers, has announced “Inspire 2021,” a three-day virtual conference, Sep. 15-18. Panels will focus on licensing, crowd-funding, brand
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Online International Workshop on Open Innovation
The ISTIC-UNESCO website reported that an “Online International Workshop on Open Innovation: Increasing the Competitive Advantage of a Nation” will be held online May 27-28.” It noted that in a society based on knowledge; science, technology and innovation are important factors that
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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
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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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