6 Engineering Challenge Web Sites
The Machine Design website noted that not all engineering challenges are created equal. Some ask for solutions through new designs, a redesign, chemicals or materials, smart electronics, or with the use of existing patents to create a technology spin-off. Most of the time there is a monetary reward for coming up with the best solution. Some challenges
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Selecting an Innovation Service Provider
The Innovation Excellence website reports that the growing adoption of open innovation tools in corporate innovation practices has resulted in a rapid proliferation of firms providing open innovation platforms and services. Often called open innovation services providers (or vendors or intermediaries),
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The Thinker Interview: Henry Chesbrough
Forbes India published an interview with Henry Chesbrough, who is considered the father of open innovation. In it he discusses the development and evolution of open innovation, open business models, open services innovation, innovation communities, some of the barriers to open innovation, open innovation
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Open Innovation Can Help Companies Achieve Success
The HiVelocity website notes that an innovative technology or business one day may be obsolete the next, and that’s one reason why large companies across the world are embracing open innovation. According to Henry Chesbrough, Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California
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Henry Chesbrough: Advances in Open Innovation
In an extensive interview on the CKGSB Knowledge website, Henry Chesbrough discusses advances in open innovation since his 2003 book on the subject. He describes innovation communities, and the open innovation work of such groups as GE’s Ecoimagination, Innocentive, NineSigma, Yet2.com and P&G’s
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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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Moving to True Open Innovation
The innovationmanagement website notes that almost any firm claims to do Open Innovation. However, if you look closely, most of the firms do not do true Open Innovation – they are merely running a multitude of open approaches to innovation. This article explains the fundamental differences between
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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’s Open Innovation Platform
The sustainablebrands website reports on an interview with Gail Martino, Manager of Emerging and Disruptive Innovation, Open Innovation Group at Unilever, about the recent launch