How Can Investors Help Us Get to Net-zero?
The World Economic Forum website reported that the world is rapidly running out of time to meet its net-zero and sustainability targets. So the World Economic Forum’s open innovation platform UpLink is targeting venture capital investors in its latest challenge in a bid to speed up this transition. Launched in 2020, UpLink was created to source innovative
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Three Startups Win First-Ever Colgate Connect Challenge
Business Wire reported that Colgate-Palmolive announced the winners of the Colgate Connect Challenge, its first-ever global pitch competition aimed at startups from around the world focused on developing world-changing products to promote healthy futures. The challenge sought to connect Colgate with
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Leveraging the Power of the Crowd through Open Innovation Platform
The Your Story website reported that the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) is a problem-centric platform in India that systematically identifies problems and manages the lab-to-market journey of innovative solutions that solve a set of validated problem statements. OIP is built with the intention of creating
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Elevate Prize Foundation Launches Application for $5M Elevate Prize
The Street Insider website reported that The Elevate Prize Foundation has announced the launch of its second year of the Elevate Prize, which will commit $5 million in funding and services to 10 prize winners. The Foundation is searching for social impact leaders globally who are tackling the most pressing
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Rainmaking To Accelerate Its Open Innovation Platform In 2021 To Tackle Decarbonization
The Hellenic Shipping News website reported that Rainmaking, a global venture development firm, is seeking to accelerate its cross-industry, open innovation platform to tackle maritime decarbonization and supply chain resilience in 2021. Rainmaking Transport’s open innovation platform first set up
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Johnson & Johnson Invests in China for Healthcare Innovation
The China Economic Net website reported that global healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has vowed to further promote an innovation strategy to support China and the world to fight the pandemic and advance the development of public health. With a number of innovative products, technologies and solutions
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Corporates Identify Start-ups as Key Partners in Post-COVID Response Plans
The PRNewswire website reported that in the pre-COVID era, India witnessed a steady and consistent increase in the number of active corporate start-up collaboration programs. The key driver for this increase was a growing willingness of corporates to leverage open innovation to strengthen their business
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Living African laboratories
The Bizcommunity website reported that adopted globally as an experimental practice for contextual product development, the ‘living lab’ concept being implemented in Africa enables new ideas to be tested in an active, real-world, real-time environment. The findings can lead to open innovation in
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