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Financial Services Firms Need to Collaborate
The Business Times website reported that S. Iswaran, Minister for Trade and Industry in Singapore, spoke to a financial services conference about the growing importance of open innovation. Explaining why this model of innovation has begun to take hold, he said: “Innovation is inherently risky, and the nature of the challenge is complex. And yet
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The Five Traits of a Most Innovative Company
The Australian Financial Review website reported a study that showed that open innovation, cross-functional collaboration, customer-centricity, dedicated “innovation time” and managers walking the talk have emerged as hallmarks of the most innovative companies. An increasing number of companies
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Small Investment in Innovation
The PRNewswire website reported on a new study which showed that while the C-Suite values innovation and recognizes it as integral for the success of the organization, few companies are organized to intentionally drive innovation and allocate resources and investments in order to accelerate the creation
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Team Characteristics Beneficial for Open Innovation Projects
The University of Turku website posted a study which discusses the importance of creating Open Innovation (OI) teams for optimizing costs of Research and Development (R&D), dividing risks and maximizing profits. The purpose of this study is to determine team characteristics beneficial for successful
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Network Analysis of Open Innovation
The Sustainability Journal website published a study of open innovation which noted that the way people innovate and create new ideas and bring them to the market is undergoing a fundamental change from closed innovation to open innovation. Why and how do firms perform open innovation? Firms’ open
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Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work
A study reported in the Harvard Business Review examined 200 innovation collaborations between big firms and tech startups which identified a major split in the way senior leadership at the large firms handled collaboration. On one side, senior leaders took a very hands-off approach. They didn’t exert
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Smartness that Matters: Cities
The Journal of Open Innovation website posted an article which presented a comprehensive review of how smart cities are perceived in the literature and in the light of these findings propose a clearer definition. An overview of the key terms, concepts and definitions associated to smart cities, reported
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Berkeley-Stanford Food Innovation & Design Symposium
The Berkeley-Haas website reported on the inaugural Berkeley-Stanford Food Innovation & Design Symposium held at UC Berkeley on May 26. The gathering brought together entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and academics to share the latest on food innovation, science, design, and technology. The
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Relational Capital and Open Innovation
The Elsiver website posted an academic study which noted that open innovations are increasingly more often mentioned in the context of innovations and effective means of their development. They refer to precious ideas, which may come from the organization’s environment, or are developed in the
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Smart Cities, Smart Villages & Interconnectivity
The website of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation noted a session on Smart Cities that was held recently in Santa Clara, Cal. In the spirit of Open Innovation, each panelist discussed how technology copes with issues accompanying urbanization to provide services and a better quality of life
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