
What Does Telefónica Offer Start-ups?
The Startups website reported on the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica which works with start-ups through its open innovation program, Open Future, which has two main goals: solving business problems by addressing clients’ demands, and rejuvenating corporate culture. Telefónica Open Future (TOF) helps turn innovative ideas into successful
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Managing Intellectual Property Risks in India
The Businessworld website interviewed Anup Sahoo, the founder of Ideapoke, an online platform which provides open innovation services to over 180,000 companies around the world, about the challenges faced by small firms doing innovation and the scope for open innovation in India. Sahoo said that open
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Open Innovation in Africa
The ODI website reported that governments across Africa are increasingly recognizing the benefits that embracing open data and open innovation can bring. Many African countries have open data initiatives while the latest Open Data Barometer research shows improvements in government transparency and
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World Open Innovation Conference
The WOIC website announced that the 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference co-hosted by the Garfield Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley and ESADE will be held Dec. 15-16 in Barcelonia Spain. The conference whose theme is “Open Innovation in the Digital Age,” brings together
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The Enterprise Case for Open Data
The Information Age website reported that recent years have shown that open data released by government can stimulate a vibrant startup economy. But according to a new report by the Open Data Institute, large-scale enterprises are also embracing open innovation with very real outcomes. These include
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Dynamics from Open Innovation to Evolutionary Change
The Journal of Open Innovation published a study which the authors summarized as follows: “We created conceptual models that people may use to analyze and forecast the dynamic effects of open innovation, which we applied to the smartphone sector using a model-based analysis approach. In addition,
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Nano Startup Challenge in Cancer
The IIT Today website reported that an interdisciplinary student team from Illinois Institute of Technology was one of 21 Semifinalists of the NanoStartup Challenge in Cancer, an open innovation competition designed to bring promising medical inventions to market. This open innovation startup is designed
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Striving for Innovation Success in the 21st Century
In an article on the MIT Technology Review website Henry Chesbrough wrote that open innovation is “the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand the markets for external use of innovation. It’s a model for industrial innovation that I originated
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