Lessons from London’s Open Innovation Challenge for Pandemic Recovery
The Cities Today website reported that ten start-ups have been selected as the winners of the London Mayor’s Resilience Fund. Their solutions include a floating solar array, an income-tracking tool for gig workers, and a platform for fitting out workspaces affordably. The £1 million (US$1.37 million) innovation program was set up to support London’s
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Airbus Announces Big Response to Innovation Call
The Australian Defence Magazine website reported that Airbus has received an ‘overwhelming level of interest’ from the local industry following the launch of a nationwide “Call for Innovation” in February seeking SMEs and academia from the Australian aerospace sector to submit proposals
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City Innovation Exchange (CiX) Launched to Implement Open Innovation in the Urban Ecosystem
The Covai Post website reported that the City Innovation Exchange (CiX), a digital platform to enable startups as the flag bearers of driving transformation of India’s urban ecosystem to achieve the envisioned goals of the National Urban Digital Mission was recently launched. CiX was launched in
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Foresight, Vestas & Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service Launch Open Innovation Challenge to Transform Wind Turbine Industry
The Foresight website announced that Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre officially launched SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Connect, an open innovation challenge for innovators across Canada to solve industry challenges from around the globe. Taking a market-driven approach, the first challenge,
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Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors and LG Chem Launch Global Competition to Invest in EV and Battery Start-ups
The Automotive World website reported that Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, and LG Chem are sponsoring the “EV & Battery Challenge”, a global competition to identify EV and battery start-ups for potential investment and collaboration. The finalists will attend a two-day workshop
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A Clarion Call To Innovate
The Asian Scientist Magazine noted that ideas are in abundance if you only know where to look. As companies seek to gain a competitive edge in their respective industries, they are becoming more receptive to ideas that originate externally, embracing the spirit of open innovation to drive growth. Broadcasting
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Innovation: I’MNOVATION Challenge Targets Sustainability in Mining
The Canadian Mining Journal reported that a new open innovation program looks to tap ideas from startups around the world to solve some of the mining sector’s most pressing problems. Ennomotive has launched in Chile I’MNOVATION, the open innovation startup program by ACCIONA, a leading multinational
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Using Technology, Innovation to Solve Climate Change
The website The Hill noted that open innovation — prizes and challenges — is one method to build incentives to tackle the problem of climate change. Open innovation’s breakthrough effect can galvanize others to enter into a space or jumpstart the flow of private capital by serving as a
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7 Principles of Complete Co-creation
The YourStory website noted that traditional top-down business models based on knowledge dominance and mass-market approaches are under pressure from more open, collaborative models that directly and continuously involve customers. In a fast-moving global economy where customers are more digitally connected,
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Team “AUTOmator” Wins Porsche Open Innovation Competition
The EIN News website reported that Steffen Iwan, Christian Brachert and Valentin Rüchardt, aka team “AUTOmator”, have been crowned the winners of the “Porsche NEXT Open Innovation Competition” with their idea of linking apps with the Porsche vehicle and making them work for the driver automatically.
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