
The Corporate Venture Comeback
The Tech Crunch website noted that corporations have come to realize the potential of a more open innovation strategy, where they invest in external startup ideas rather than only experimenting internally. This shift is why many corporates have investment funds specifically dedicated to startups — just look at Mondelez International (formerly Kraft),
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How to Stay Agile in a Fast Changing World
The YourStory website noted that with companies going digital, they are able to directly connect with customers and engage with them to co-develop products, understand their challenges, and get new ideas going using crowdsourcing, open innovation, and communities. The close engagement with customers
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Have an Idea for the Future of Food?
The Sustainable Brands website reported that Food Matters Live is hosting the 4th Food & FMCG Innovation Pitching Event on November 17th. Individuals, research centers, and companies of all sizes are invited to pitch to members of the Open Innovation Forum with solutions that address their business
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Opening Up Food Science Innovation
The Food Business News website noted that food scientists in the 1970s and 1980s worked in a closed innovation model. Companies protected intellectual property and trade secrets. Food scientists concentrated on product innovation designed to grow a company’s brand through market share. Now, Hamsa Thota,
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Finding Innovative Ideas in Unexpected Places
The Forbes website reports that Zynga, whose firm counts Xerox, Pfizer, Kraft, Siemens, and many other heavy hitters among its clients, says any company can make profitable use of ideas from other, seemingly unrelated fields. The first step in what’s commonly called open innovation, he says, is to
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