Inaugural Ferry Open Innovation Challenge

The GCaptain website announced that Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, unveiled e-learning technology and service provider Marine Learning Systems (MLS) as the winner of the inaugural Inmarsat Ferry Open Innovation Challenge, a competition inviting start-ups and SMEs

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A Hackathon to Decarbonize Renault Group Plants

Automotive World reported that Open innovation isn’t just for start-ups. The industry itself is also undergoing an in-depth transformation in order to reinvent itself and anticipate the future. This collaborative challenge – organized with the support of Startup Inside, a specialist in open innovation,

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NORCAT Launches Open Innovation Platform to Connect the ‘Builders’ and ‘Buyers’ of Innovation

The Mining.com website reported that NORCAT has launched the NORCAT Open Innovation Platform – an online marketplace that enables tech companies and mining companies to work together to solve the many intractable challenges facing the global mining industry. NORCAT’s aspirational priority to be the

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Join the Software République to Shape Tomorrow’s Mobility with the ‘Mobility 4.0 Challenge’

Yahoo!Finance reported that Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics, and Thales, members of the Software République are launching their first open innovation challenge. The competition will start on September 6 and will be open to start-ups, entrepreneurs, SMEs, research

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Inculcating an ‘Innovation by Design’ Culture in Organizations

The People Matters website posted an article which noted that organizations have realized that innovation does not only happen within an organization. Many times, it needs an external partner who can help inspire, discover or define opportunities i.e. through “open innovation,” i.e. by interacting

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Nestlé Launches Innovation Platform for Start-ups

The Gadget website reported that Nestlé has launched an innovation platform for start-ups and innovators across the East and Southern Africa Region who want to work with the food manufacturing industry. Created in partnership with COOi Studios, the Nestlé Hatcher is described as “a ground-breaking,

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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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The Naval Technology website reported that the French company Naval Group has launched a research and development center of excellence in Singapore to develop world-class expertise for strategic naval defense research topics. In June this year, the company organized Start We Up, an innovation marathon

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5G as an Innovation Platform

The Civil Service World website noted that to become true digital service providers, operators will need to transition from ‘closed’ to ‘open’ innovation models.  We began to see the power of open innovation with Apple’s iPhone app store and the emergence of open source software, which both

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