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How to make open innovation work in Europe

How to make open innovation work in Europe

By OIC Editor • on April 16, 2012

The Science|Business website reports that the academic ‘father’of open innovation, Henry Chesbrough, is launching a European forum for it, in collaboration with the Science|Business Innovation Board. Chesbrough discusses the European challenges in an interview with the Science|Business Innovation Board.

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Examples Of Open Innovation To Stimulate R&D

Examples Of Open Innovation To Stimulate R&D

By OIC Editor • on April 14, 2012

The SeekingAlpha website reports recent research which identified four different  types of corporate environment in addressing the potential of open innovation. Technology isolationists, (36 percent of the respondents), invest solely in their own R&D and are not interested in tapping outside wisdom

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Organizing Open Innovation: Ecosystems or Communities?

Organizing Open Innovation: Ecosystems or Communities?

By OIC Editor • on April 14, 2012

The InnovationExcellence website notes that the concept of Open Innovation (OI) has gained tremendous traction in recent years, as companies realize the potential offered by capabilities, technology and resource outside the organization’s borders. The OI principles outlined in Henry Chesbrough’s

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State of Global Innovation

State of Global Innovation

By OIC Editor • on April 9, 2012

The Innocentive website reports on a Forrester Research global survey of 229 open innovation decision makers, augmented with more than a dozen in-depth interviews with senior executive leaders in large multi-national firms. The research reveals that the use of open innovation tools and techniques continues

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Rethinking Higher Education Business Models

Rethinking Higher Education Business Models

By OIC Editor • on April 6, 2012

The Center for American Progress website published a study on the great challenge facing higher education today: to contain costs while at the same time improving outcomes—in short, to increase productivity. Information technology has long been seen as a major key to meeting this challenge, but

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Business Models Built Through Open Innovation

Business Models Built Through Open Innovation

By OIC Editor • on March 31, 2012

The exnovate.org website reports on a study by Dr. Wim Vanhaverbek that shows that open innovation can create new opportunities for all types of SME – from start-ups in high-tech markets to players in traditional markets – because they can change business models without having the required technologies

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Innovation Expert Launches European Innovation Forum

Innovation Expert Launches European Innovation Forum

By OIC Editor • on March 30, 2012

The ESADE website reports that professor Henry Chesbrough, the leading scholar of  ‘open innovation’ management, is launching a European Innovation Forum to discover, discuss and share the most effective ways to organize business innovation.

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Open Innovation: New Insights and Evidence

Open Innovation: New Insights and Evidence

By OIC Editor • on March 27, 2012

Joel West’s website announced that to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, the journal Research Policy is scheduled to publish a special issue entitled “Open Innovation: New Insights

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Open Innovation and Clean Energy

Open Innovation and Clean Energy

By OIC Editor • on March 23, 2012

A blog on the worldbank.org website reports that the World Bank has launched a new approach to fostering green innovation called the Indonesia Green Innovation Pilot Program. Its aim is to learn how open innovation principles can foster the generation of market-based solutions to clean energy.  A

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Open Innovation and Its Antecedents

Open Innovation and Its Antecedents

By OIC Editor • on March 18, 2012

The website Opensource.com asks how is open innovation tangibly different than the older models of innovation? It’s not a simple question to answer, and  our collective understanding is evolving–evolving as quickly as innovation is manifesting itself in so many sectors and areas. Fifteen years

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