GE’s Ecomagination Winners
The BNN website reported that the winners of the final phase of General Electric’s Ecomagination Innovation Challenge are focused on reducing the heat and water used in new Oil Sands projects. Ecomagination is an open innovation challenge, aimed at helping oil sands producers drastically reduce their environmental footprint. The open innovation challenge
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GE and IBM on Innovation
The Drum website reported on an example where GE reached beyond its borders with the open innovation challenge. “We have ten open innovation challenges in our Ecomagination team,” a GE spokesperson said. “If we don’t have the expertise – full time – we ask if someone from the outside
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Winners Announced for GE Global Challenge
The CNW website reported that General Electric has announced the three winners in the final phase of its GHG Ecomagination Challenge, with the aim of commercializing technology to reduce environmental impact from production in Canada’s Oil Sands. The final phase identified two winners from the
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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
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Ecomagination Innovation Challenge Winners Tout Collaboration
The GEreports website noted that by inviting anyone, anywhere to submit a proposal, GE’s Ecomagination challenges harness the power of “open innovation,” a collaborative approach to finding new solutions for complex technological problems. Open innovation helps join “global dots” drawing
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GE Launches Ecomagination Challenge to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions
The Wall Street Journal website reported that General Electric has launched an up to CAD$1million ecomagination open innovation challenge to help accelerate technology development in Canada’s oil sands. The Innovation Challenge will target two of the biggest opportunities to reduce green-house
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Open Innovation Past and Present: Henry Chesbrough Interview
The Innovation Management website posted an interview with Henry Chesbrough, considered the father of open innovation. Though intensely talked about, open innovation remains a subject matter that both fascinates and creates apprehension among business professionals. In the interview Chesbrough discusses
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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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Open Innovation: From Beginnings to Today
The ECNmag website notes that one of the most dramatic corporate shifts we have seen over the last decade is on the innovation front. It is not a coincidence that at the same time our innovation model was beginning to change, the Internet and emergence of social media were enabling society as a whole
GE Announces $10 Million Challenge
The Geekzone website reported that GE has pledged $10 million to find, fund and bring to market breakthrough ideas for reducing our carbon footprint from Australia & New Zealand. GE’s first local Challenge is an open innovation competition which calls on businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators