
How Anyone Can Turn Into A Creative Genius
The Huntington Post noted that many corporations are using open innovation to get new product ideas or find solutions to problems. Procter & Gamble is one of the most experienced and long-term leaders of crowdsourcing. In 2001, it launched a platform called “Connect + Develop.” This platform allows P&G to crowdsource for creativity
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How Open Innovation Helped Create a Billion Dollar Brand
The Ideaconnection website reported that Febreze has been one of the fastest growing brands for Procter and Gamble in recent years and it’s due to a combination of internal R&D and external innovation. Open innovation partners have been selected to develop, manufacture and commercialize Febreze-based
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Keeping Secrets Holds Back Innovation
The website Insead asked the question, why are some firms more able to transform knowledge sourced externally into innovative outputs? It goes on to say open innovation is not just a matter of getting the right contacts. To get the most out of their open innovation strategy firms must start by creating
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Success With Open Innovation Portals
The Idea Connection website noted that the high costs associated with R&D functions, the equally high risk of failure and uncertain economic conditions has led to an increase in the adoption of open innovation methods. They include technology scouting, partnerships, knowledge brokering, idea contests
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The Open Innovation Business Model
The Innovation Excellence website noted that accomplishing sustainable, breakthrough innovations within multinational corporations is attainable using open innovation and innovation hubs. Open innovation blends a firm’s internal assets with the seemingly limitless knowledge pool outside of the
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“Open Innovation” Picking Up Steam
The Thinkinc website noted that in 2003, Henry Chesbrough presented a case study of 1970s and 1980s corporate innovation firms, centered on the giants of R&D from that era such as, Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox PARC. Chesbrough noted that R&D departments have traditionally been ‘closed’ to
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The Thinker Interview: Henry Chesbrough
Forbes India published an interview with Henry Chesbrough, who is considered the father of open innovation. In it he discusses the development and evolution of open innovation, open business models, open services innovation, innovation communities, some of the barriers to open innovation, open innovation
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Open Innovation 2.0
ISPM Magazine published an article which says that the EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy group (OISPG)–which unites industrial groups, academia and private users to support policies for Open Innovation at the European Commission–seems to be witnessing a new level of open innovation
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What is Connect + Development?
The pgconnectdevelop website explains Procter & Gamble’s Connect + Develop: “It’s our version of open innovation: the practice of tapping externally developed intellectual property to accelerate internal innovation and sharing our internally developed assets and know-how to help
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Choosing the Right Approach to an Open Innovation Strategy
The Smart Blog on Leadership website notes that open innovation is a business strategy to advance technology by fusing external ideas and products with internal research and development. It is a way for businesses to minimize costs and create products more efficiently. However, choosing the right
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