Arise Co-Creation Manager
The InnovationExcellence website notes that innovation has become the name of the game for businesses to compete effectively in an increasingly kinetic, globalized and technology-driven marketplace. To ensure a constant supply of new ideas, today’s corporations know that they cannot rely solely on internal resources or a small circle of consultants
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Tate & Lyle Launches Open Innovation Platform
The Food Navigator website reports that from food ingredients that reduce the blood glucose response to food intake, to natural high-potency sweeteners, digestive health and weight management ingredients, and plant-based ingredients that can mask bitter flavor, these are just some of the ingredients
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Unilever : Collaborate to Innovate
The 4-traders website reports that Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, has released a new set of challenges to the world’s innovation community to help the business deliver on its sustainable growth agenda. Unilever has now unveiled
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Big companies Look to Open Innovation
The Financial Times reports that Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, is trawling the outside world for help in producing an environmentally friendly detergent and sugar-reduced drinks. The move is part of a growing global trend for open innovation
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Unilever Bets on Open Innovation for Sustainability
The innovationmanagement website reports that the push for environmental sustainability is one of the drivers that is pushing Unilever to aggressively embrace open innovation. Unilever is launching an online platform offering experts the opportunity to help the company find the technical solutions
Unilever & General Mills to share Open Innovation Experiences
The nutraingredients website reported that at the Food Vision conference in March 2013, Jeff Bellairs, senior director of General Mills’ Worldwide Innovation Network, and Patrick Lesueur, Nutrition Research R&D director at Unilever will lead an interactive session to share their organizations’
Patent Reform: End to Open Innovation?
The rdinsights website posted an article which says that the America Invents Act, also referred to as patent reform, will spell the end to open innovation as currently practiced, starting in March of 2013. Patent reform’s first to file provision will change how inventors respond to open innovation
Unilever Challenge on Sodium Reduction
The foodnavigator website reports that Unilever has already reduced salt in many of its products by 25% but is looking for potential partners to help it reduce sodium by a further 15-20% without compromising the taste of its products. The company adds “we want open innovation to help us find
Addressing the Innovation Deficit
In an article on the Science|Business website Soumitra Dutta, professor of Business at INSEAD, notes that innovation is a crucial element of sustainable growth and argues that the innovation models of many firms remain closed and only few (such as P&G and Unilever) have successfully taken concrete
Open Innovation in Practice
The website foodnavigator features an interview with Kevin Stark of NineSigma in which he discusses the evolution of open innovation. He points out that it’s one thing to have accepted that your R&D department does not have a monopoly on good ideas, but quite another to make collaboration