GE: The Future of Manufacturing
The TechRepublic website reported that General Electric has launched FirstBuild, a “microfactory” and open community for students, engineers, and innovators on the University of Louisville campus in Louisville, Kentucky. The company wants to create a new business model for the manufacturing industry by harnessing open innovation, the
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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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GE, Local Motors Partner New Model for Manufacturing
The Wall Street Journal website reported that GE has formed a partnership with Local Motors, the open-source hardware innovator, to launch a new model for the manufacturing industry. The partnership will pair co-creation and micromanufacturing to build and commercialize the next evolution of various
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GE’s Open Innovation Strategy in Canada
The Intellectual Asset Management website reported that GE Licensing has announced a pilot program that will see it make GE-developed IP available for use by entrepreneurs and small businesses in the Canadian province
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GE Quests for Better Hospitals and More Efficient Flying
The IdeaConnection website reported that instead of hiring a crack team of researchers to improve upon or develop new algorithms, some companies are turning to the crowd and setting up prize-based competitions instead. One of those is General Electric (GE) a company that has long embraced open innovation.
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Award-Winning Article on Open Innovation
The Business and Leadership website reported that an article, ‘Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation’ has won the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan Technology Review for the ‘most outstanding’ article published
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GE Unveils the 10 Finalists for its Open Innovation Quest
The Wall Street Journal website reported that General Electric (GE) has unveiled ten Phase I finalists from its Jet Engine Bracket Design Quest. This design Quest invited individuals, companies and institutions to redesign loading brackets found on jet engines using 3D printing. The Quest combines
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NFL Head Health Challenge
The NFL website reported that the National Football League, Under Armour and General Electric have announced the Head Health Challenge II, an open innovation challenge to award up to $10 million for new innovations and materials that can protect the brain from traumatic injury and for new tools for
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End of the Great-Man Theory of Innovation
The Businessweek site noted that collaborative innovation is the sort of concept that periodically seizes management circles. Most people have heard about it, something to do with mixed teams of insiders and outsiders. What most haven’t got their minds around is that as it moves from phenomenon
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GE Launches Open Innovation Quests
The GE website announced that the company was launching two additive manufacturing quests that invite entrepreneurs, companies and institutions to offer their solutions to two additive manufacturing challenges: 3D Printing Design Quest and 3D Printing Production Quest: High Precision and Advanced
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