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Sustainability-Driven Innovators

Sustainability-Driven Innovators

By OIC Editor • on February 10, 2013

The MIT Sloan Management Review reports that business model innovation is the bottom line of Sustainability-Driven Innovator success. In stark contrast to managers who say sustainability is not adding to profits, those who say that it is are more than twice as likely to report that sustainability is driving business-model innovation. Business-model

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Open Up to Mobile

Open Up to Mobile

By OIC Editor • on June 25, 2012

The website Econtentmag explores ways to innovate in the burgeoning mobile sector and says that it’s time to take out and dust off Henry Chesbrough’s milestone book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting From Technology and read it with mobile in mind. Chesbrough would

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Picture of Competition, Cooperation and Innovation

Picture of Competition, Cooperation and Innovation

By OIC Editor • on June 12, 2012

The website lillycoi posted an article about how a small, online photography business profited from open innovation. Instead of pursuing their business goals in secret, the business owners used a few established online social networks to find and share new ideas, and an amazing thing happened: their

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Million Dollar Innovation Challenge

Million Dollar Innovation Challenge

By OIC Editor • on December 29, 2011

The San Mateo Daily Journal reports that Zazzle has recently partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Open Innovation to find the world’s next big customizable product. The “Million Dollar Innovation Challenge”

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Open innovation and social media are inseparable

Open innovation and social media are inseparable

By OIC Editor • on August 28, 2011

Stefan Lindergaard writes on the site 15Inno that the key reason for focusing on the intersection of open innovation and social media is that interaction and involvement are two terms that work equally well for both open innovation and social media. You could even argue that open innovation and social

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The Future of Internal R&D Departments in an Open Innovation Era

The Future of Internal R&D Departments in an Open Innovation Era

By OIC Editor • on July 19, 2011

In his article on “Business Insider’s” website, Michael Richard Jackson Bonner provides an engaging perspective on “outside-in” open innovation. He makes the important point that companies still need internal R&D in an open innovation world, and that one must still find ways to obtain value

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Dublin’s Data-sharing Network

Dublin’s Data-sharing Network

By OIC Editor • on June 29, 2011

In his article on TechCentral.ie, Paul Hearns details Dublin’s new data-sharing network called “Dublinked.” According to the article, “Open data initiatives in other city regions such as Amsterdam, London and San Francisco have demonstrated that data sharing initiatives can drive the development

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How Open Innovation Can Drive Sustainability

How Open Innovation Can Drive Sustainability

By OIC Editor • on June 29, 2011

In his article “Business working together to drive innovation, Terry Slavin of “The Guardian” explores how the carpet tile manufacturer InterfaceFlor is utilizing open innovation to continue to push the boundaries of sustainability and stay ahead of its competitors. Miriam Turner, Interface’s

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Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation

Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation

By OIC Editor • on June 29, 2011

The Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation took place in Phoenix, Ariz. from June 27-28, 2011. The conference’s goal was to help companies “understand and apply co-creative approaches that drive breakthrough results in product development and innovation.” Among those presenting

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Science|Business Video Interview with Henry Chesbrough

Science|Business Video Interview with Henry Chesbrough

By OIC Editor • on June 29, 2011

In the video included below, Science|Business’s Richard Hudson speaks with Professor Henry Chesbrough and BP’s Group Head for Research and Technology, David Eyton about open innovation.

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