Ecomagination: Progress in Open Innovation
The GE Sustainability website reported that in 2014 GE’s Open Innovation program Ecomagination launched two open innovation challenges to bring the power of the innovation community together to tackle pressing water and energy challenges. With the addition of these two 2014 challenges, Ecomagination has launched six open innovation challenges
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Corporate Open Innovation Platforms
The Clean Technica website noted that in the past few years, a lot of big companies have launched their own open innovation platforms, in order to attract external partners and benefit from collaboration with them. At the same time, open innovation gives excellent opportunities for all participants
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Desalination Open Innovation Challenge
The Ecopreneurist website reported that to spur innovation in seawater desalination, GE and Saudi Aramco have partnered on an open innovation challenge that seeks to use “innovative renewable energy processes or new materials” to significantly lower the cost of the process, and in so doing,
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OpenInnovation: Past and Present
In this interview on the website Innovation Management, Henry Chesbrough discusses a few key aspects of the relatively new and challenging open innovation model: its evolution, its applicability and most importantly, its essential role in facilitating knowledge creation for the future. He describes
Innovative Sustainability Solutions
The Sustainablebrands website notes that rapid advancements in technology are changing the way companies gather and share knowledge, and most importantly the efficiency with which new ideas are discovered and brought to market. Crowdsourcing, open innovation and social enterprise technology are
GE’s innovator community
The Financial Times website posted an article by Henry Chesbrough which describes how General Electric figured out a way to be a leader in the green energy sector – making the most of its vast internal R&D expertise while integrating its existing energy efforts with those outside the company.
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Can Crowdsourcing Crack Corporate Sustainability?
The Guardian notes that we’ve seen a wave of businesses pioneering new ways of putting into practice the old adage that a problem shared can be a problem halved by tapping into the wisdom of the crowds who populate the online world. The shift has thrown wide open a range of business challenges
GE and Carbon Trust Partner to Boost Clean Tech
The Clickgreen website reports that GE and the Carbon Trust have announced a new pan-European partnership to accelerate European clean tech growth. This partnership is part of the $200 million GE Ecomagination Challenge, a global open innovation initiative with Venture Capital partners that launched