
Bayer to Create Ag Biologicals Powerhouse Partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks
Businesswire reported that Bayer is pursuing an agreement whereby Ginkgo Bioworks will acquire Bayer’s West Sacramento Biologics Research & Development (R&D) site and internal discovery and lead optimization platform. This strategic shift to an exclusively external biologics research discovery pipeline with leading partners will activate the
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Kebotix, Bayer Collaborate to Speed Delivery of Agricultural Innovations
The Street Insider website reported that arming farmers with innovative crop protection tools powered by a faster data-driven system is the focus of a new collaboration between technology platform company Kebotix and Bayer. Kebotix scientists will join other industry leaders to discuss Bayer’s open
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Transforming Agriculture Through Our Open Innovation Model
The HortiDaily website reported that Bob Reiter, head of research and development at the Crop Science division of Bayer, highlighted the interconnectivity between scientific experts inside and outside of the company’s own network of R&D resources, their importance to innovation, and the next solutions
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Bayer Has Big Plans in West Berkeley for Next 30 Years
The San Francisco Business Times reported that Biocom President and CEO Joe Panetta said that large companies play a critical role in the larger life sciences community as sources of best practices in the functional areas of running a biotech company. “Some of the earliest biotech companies are still
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Innovation in the Open
An article on the Chemistry World website noted a trend in open innovation: rather than drawing start-ups closer to obtain their intellectual property, some firms are shifting to a more collaborative approach. This strategy foresees collaboration agreements, or business support, and subsequent shared
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Henry Chesbrough on Barriers, Success Stories, and Business Unit Support
The Innovation Leader website posted an article in which Henry Chesbrough discusses why the “inside-out” approach is more challenging for most companies; how open innovation is being practiced at companies like Intel, Eli Lilly, Bayer, and United HealthCare; and some of the common barriers to making
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Open Innovation: Modernizing Agriculture
The Crop Science website posted an article describing how Bayer is implementing open innovation. Bayer has an internal platform (called WeSolve) that allows employees to submit challenging questions and seek answers from their colleagues. Additionally, Bayer reaches out to creative minds all over the
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Collaborative Working in Farming
An article on the FarmingUK website noted that agri-tech giants like Bayer are embracing open innovation, both within their own businesses and throughout the wider industry. “It is a big mindset change,” admits Adrian Percy, head of research and development at Bayer Crop Science. “But it is such
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Bayer Launches Open Innovation Challenge
The Nation website reported that Bayer Pharmaceuticals is addressing the problem of drug adherence in the elderly by launching the “Grants4sApps” challenge in Singapore. The Grants4Apps Bayer-NUS Open Innovation Challenge calls for innovative health tech solutions across countries in Asia-Pacific
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The Door’s Always Open for Innovation
The Bayercropscience website reported that “as an organization we know that we don’t have all the answers and understand the need to be open to collaborate with thinkers from diverse and different backgrounds if we are to help solve some of the major challenges that our world is facing. Open
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