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Corporate Innovation & Business Strategies Out of Sync
The Consultancy website reported that a new study has found that business strategy and innovation strategy are often not aligned, creating risks of lost revenue, market position and waste. The report highlights a wide range of effort may be required to create a company friendly to innovation. Open innovation and collaboration with partners, design thinking
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Scientists Without Borders
The New York Academy of Science website reported that Scientists Without Borders, conceived in 2008 in partnership with the United Nations Millennium Project, is a collaborative community of scientists, engineers and innovators dedicated to finding solutions for global development issues. Through its
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Survey Shows Embrace of Open Innovation
The Financial website reported on a new survey of over 1200 global executives and business leaders; the PwC Innovation Benchmark examines how top companies are meeting innovation challenges. Overall, companies are becoming more inclusive and are adopting open innovation models that bring more voices
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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
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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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Coming Waves of Disruption
The Sys-Con Media website noted that big disruptions have upended markets for mobile handsets, personal computers, cameras, newspapers, books, magazines, music, broadcast television and so on — felling a long list of well-known companies along the way. The most viable response to such radical disruption,
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Korean Drugmakers to Seek Global Partnerships
The Korea Herald website reported that South Korean pharmaceutical companies and global drugmakers came together to discuss new business partnerships and open innovation at this year’s Korea Pharma Associations Conference in Seoul. As one of the biggest pharma industry events of the year, the conference
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