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Open Innovation Day: Lyon, France

Open Innovation Day: Lyon, France

By OIC Editor • on April 25, 2013

The Open Alps website announced an Open Innovation Day Conference to be held on June 26 in Lyon, France. The Open Innovation  Day will deal with topics such as the challenges of opening your innovation process as a company, models and methods of Open Innovation, tools available to facilitate collaboration with the stakeholders of your innovation

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Corporate Business Model Innovation

Corporate Business Model Innovation

By OIC Editor • on April 16, 2013

The University of California at Berkeley Center for Executive Education has announced a program on Corporate Business Model Innovation led by Henry Chesbrough, Alex Osterwalder and Steve Blank. The announcement notes that most major corporations limit the scope of their innovation processes to the creation

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Open Innovation and Business Models for SMEs

Open Innovation and Business Models for SMEs

By OIC Editor • on April 16, 2013

The Big Innovation Centre announced that there will be a presentation by Professor Solomon Darwin of the Berkeley Innovation Forum on May 3.  Dr. Darwin will discuss how open innovation looks at the adaptation of current business models by embracing ideas and technology from outside of the organization.

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Gap Between Innovation Leaders and Followers in the EU Grows

Gap Between Innovation Leaders and Followers in the EU Grows

By OIC Editor • on April 13, 2013

The European Commission has published a study of Innovation in the European Union which found that innovation performance in the EU has improved year on year in spite of the continuing economic crisis, but the innovation divide between Member States is widening. While the most innovative countries

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Study Shows Companies Hungry to Leverage Open Innovation

Study Shows Companies Hungry to Leverage Open Innovation

By OIC Editor • on April 8, 2013

The Sacramento Bee reports that NineSigma, a leading innovation partner to organizations worldwide, has released its Open Innovation  (OI) Scorecard Survey Report. The report presents insights from a survey of over 750 organizations worldwide, regarding their readiness, progress, and results related

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The Thinker Interview: Henry Chesbrough

The Thinker Interview: Henry Chesbrough

By OIC Editor • on March 29, 2013

Forbes India published an interview with Henry Chesbrough, who is considered the father of open innovation. In it he discusses the development and evolution of open innovation, open business models, open services innovation, innovation communities, some of the barriers to open innovation, open innovation

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Implementing Open Innovation

Implementing Open Innovation

By OIC Editor • on March 17, 2013

The Crowdsourcing website notes that as knowledge is widely distributed across the external environment, many companies have opened up their innovation process to gain access to the expertise of external parties and existing knowledge from different domains. While earlier literature has demonstrated

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OI: Enhance Early Collaborative Product Potential

OI: Enhance Early Collaborative Product Potential

By OIC Editor • on March 11, 2013

An article on the  Crowdsourcing website notes that while the original idea of open innovation has been to involve external actors throughout the innovation process,  in practice it has often been interpreted as only the integration of the final customer during the idea generation. This article introduces

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Open innovation: Organizational Practices and Policy Implications

Open innovation: Organizational Practices and Policy Implications

By OIC Editor • on March 4, 2013

In this doctoral thesis posted on the ESADE website, Henry Nelson reviews seven research articles which  provide a broad perspective on open innovation, from the project level to the innovation system level of analysis. The studies include an exploration of different types of innovation intermediaries

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Open Innovation Monitor 2012

Open Innovation Monitor 2012

By OIC Editor • on February 20, 2013

The crowdsourcing website posted a the results of a study, “Open Innovation Monitor 2012,” a survey of more than 200 German-speaking executives about the use of the Open Innovation methodology and the tools within the Open Innovation process. The survey concluded that innovation is a key

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