Open Innovation and SMEs
The Innocentive website posted an article noting that there has been discussion lately of the strength of SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises), with some clusters in and around the Alpine regions of Europe highlighted in particular. But can SMEs, who are widely considered to form the backbone of the European economy, do more? Recently there
Comments Off on Open Innovation and SMEs • Read this story »
More Articles
Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
The ESADE Business School in Barcelona has announced a program on Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship. Creating new markets, embracing new business models, and identifying new customer segments within existing business units is a major challenge. Companies that don’t innovate will
Comments Off on Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship • Read this story »
Open innovation: Collaboration between Business and Universities
The Intellectual Property Office website (UK) posted an article which outlines an evaluation of the impact of the Lambert Toolkit, developed in 2005 to provide model licensing agreements to aid university-business research collaboration. The Lambert toolkit is for universities and companies that wish
Comments Off on Open innovation: Collaboration between Business and Universities • Read this story »
Open Innovation: New Opportunities in Food Manufacturing
The Food Manufacturing website noted that open innovation (OI) is the systematic inclusion of parties outside your four walls and outside your existing networks. Companies practice open innovation because they want to reduce the time it takes to get to market, avoid getting trapped by their own thinking,
Comments Off on Open Innovation: New Opportunities in Food Manufacturing • Read this story »
Open Innovation and Business Models for SMEs
The Big Innovation Centre announced that there will be a presentation by Professor Solomon Darwin of the Berkeley Innovation Forum on May 3. Dr. Darwin will discuss how open innovation looks at the adaptation of current business models by embracing ideas and technology from outside of the organization.
Comments Off on Open Innovation and Business Models for SMEs • Read this story »
Do-it-Yourself Open Innovation
The InnovationManagement website noted that to succeed in a fast-paced competitive global economy, small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) are increasingly adopting Open Innovation (OI) management strategies. A lack of resources, however, frequently requires SMEs to implement OI strategies on their
Comments Off on Do-it-Yourself Open Innovation • Read this story »
Gap Between Innovation Leaders and Followers in the EU Grows
The European Commission has published a study of Innovation in the European Union which found that innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. While the most innovative countries
Comments Off on Gap Between Innovation Leaders and Followers in the EU Grows • Read this story »
How Crowdsourcing Impacts Innovation
The Crowdsourcing website notes that the Internet has had a profound influence on innovation practices. Crowdsourcing has tipped the innovation balance from the domination of large corporations towards smaller entities and access to these innovation sources has become an important part of innovation
Comments Off on How Crowdsourcing Impacts Innovation • Read this story »
The Internet and Open Innovation for SMEs
The website of the Institut für the Internet und Gesellschaft reported that according to the EU, open innovation requires new policies and thinking: An easy access to capital, an effective protection of intellectual property and the promotion of networks and cooperation. This entry deals with some
Comments Off on The Internet and Open Innovation for SMEs • Read this story »
OI: Enhance Early Collaborative Product Potential
An article on the Crowdsourcing website notes that while the original idea of open innovation has been to involve external actors throughout the innovation process, in practice it has often been interpreted as only the integration of the final customer during the idea generation. This article introduces
Comments Off on OI: Enhance Early Collaborative Product Potential • Read this story »