Smart Cities: Openness and Co-creation
In an article on the Business Today website Solomon Darwin, Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of Berkeley said, “The problem with cities is that they are becoming isolated, working in silos. Silos create barriers and also create expenses. We want to build smart cities through open innovation –
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Open Innovation: Driving the Growth of Smart Cities
The IdeaPoke website noted that open and collaborative innovation has emerged as the key driving factor behind the growth of smart cities. As many cities and municipal corporations have found out, a top down, central planning approach to public governance has its limitations. In addition, the increasingly
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Open Innovation Symposium in Bangalore
The Ciol website reported that the Xerox Research Centre India conducted XRCI Open 2014 – Xerox India’s 1st Open Innovation Symposium in Bangalore. Several eminent institutes participated: IISc, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Delhi, IIM Indore, Singapore Management
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Open Innovation Club Launched In San Francisco
The Broadwayworld website reported that a core group of French corporations in Silicon Valley has launched the Open Innovation Club, a collective of large French and American companies aiming at fostering open innovation across all stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem. Forward-looking firms are
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What a City Needs to Foster Innovation
The Quartz website reported that once upon a time, innovation was an isolationist sport. In America’s innovative economy 20 years ago, a worker drove to a nondescript office campus along a suburban corridor, worked in isolation, and kept ideas secret. Today by contrast proximity is everything.
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Competition for Smarter Cities and Businesses
The Silicon Republic website reported that The European Union is offering €400,000 in prizes for new applications that can be used to build smarter cities and smarter businesses. Judged by specialized engineers from the EU-funded FI-WARE Consortium, the only condition of the competition is that app
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Latest Research on Open Government and Open Innovation
The ESADE.edu website reports that representatives from ESADE presented their latest research findings on open government and open innovation at the Sustainable Development Forum 2012, an event organised by the World Bank. Jonathan Wareham, ESADE’s Vice-Dean of Research and Director of the Institute