New “Organizational Moonshots” Course
The UC Berkeley website reported that Berkeley Haas Business School adjunct professor Henry Chesbrough, who directs the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and is known as the father of “Open Innovation,” has made the concept of a “Moonshot” the center of a new course called “Organizational Moonshots.” “I wanted students to
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DARPA: A Case Study in Open Innovation
The Digitalgov website reported that a number of ingredients help DARPA come up with and execute good ideas. And the agency often gets ideas from building communities of practice in specific areas, often spurred on by open competition and collaboration. DARPA has listed several challenge competitions
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Is Open Innovation the Future of Academic Research?
The Dzone website posted an article which noted that organisations from a wide range of sectors are now opening up their innovation processes to people outside of their organization. GE for instance has EcoMagination and their recent partnership with Quirky. Lego has their Cuusoo platform. DARPA
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NASA & DARPA Turn to Open Innovation in the Final Frontier
The Topcoder site reports that starting later this month, NASA and DARPA, in partnership with MIT and Aurora Flight Sciences, will be turning to an Open Innovation competition that they are hoping will create extreme value algorithms that push forward several key projects and innovations where autonomous
Innovation for the People, by the People
A nytimes.com blog notes that today’s problems are complex and unpredictable. Similarly, the problem solving knowledge is not concentrated in any one agency, faculty, company or country. It’s scattered far and wide. How can governments unearth this knowledge and bring it together in a way that