Leading Innovation Educators Launch Global Program Connecting Tech Students to Professional Mentors and Opportunities
PR Newswire reported that leading educators from UC Berkeley, the IE University Venture Lab and other institutions announced the Global Venture Catalyst (GVC)™ program, a free opportunity connecting undergraduate technical students from the world’s top-ranked universities with industry educators, mentors, and employers. “We’re
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How Seeing Ideas of Others Can Harm Creativity in Open Innovation
The American Marketing Association posted an article which maintained that open innovation contests which involve seeing numerous competitive ideas of others harms, rather than stimulates, creative performance. Others’ competitive prior ideas interfere with idea generation, as new ideas need to be
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A Process Approach to Understanding Multiple Open Source Innovation Contests
The Science Direct website posted a website which noted that as organizations recognize the importance of open innovation, understanding emerging mechanisms for soliciting outside participation is a growing area of academic interest. Strategies can be as diverse as hosting innovation contests, sponsoring
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Nokia Announces Open Innovation Challenge 2015 Winners
The Nokia website announced the winners of its third Open Innovation Challenge, which offered innovators an opportunity to collaborate on game-changing ideas to shape the programmable world. Nokia received hundreds of submissions from all around the world and after intensive evaluation work, ideas were
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Joel West on Open Innovation
The Keck Graduate Institute website reported that Joel West, Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeck recently published a new book, “New Frontiers in Open Innovation.” In an interview with the site Dr. West discusses the approach the three open innovation experts took to covering the extensive
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Open Innovation to Help the Poor and Vulnerable
The Ideaconnection website posted a blog which noted that open innovation is not just about accelerating innovation to boost bottom lines. The intellect, experience and wisdom of the crowd can also be harnessed to tackle poverty and the aftermath of natural disasters. The article presents three examples
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5 Open Innovation Initiatives: Getting Us Moving
The Idea Connection website notes that crowdsourcing and open innovation are catalysts for innovative thinking that can be applied to anything from pharmaceuticals to packaging, and engineering to the environment. Keen to maximize the opportunities afforded by engaging diverse experts, the transport
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Open Innovation: Three Examples
The Economist (Namibia) website posted an article which noted that the theory behind open innovation is that the sphere of knowledge and experience within the organization is necessarily limited. Worse, it may be further limited by corporate practices and processes. By tapping into external sources,
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The Ins And Outs Of Open Innovation
An article on the Forbes website argues that there is some confusion regarding open innovation, or at least there is a need to cast a wider net around what open innovation is all about. To understand why open innovation has become so popular over the past few decades, it helps to remember what
Ireland: Open Innovation to Rebuild an Economy
An open innovation competition described on the website “IdeaConnection” shows how the Irish government is using open innovation to get Ireland back on its feet. The article concludes that “open innovation can radically transform the way people interact with public officials and government