Open Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights management have long been presented as contradictory conceptions of innovation. We discuss here the apparent contradiction around Innovation Property but show that IPRs, well managed, allow to conduct the most effective Open Innovation projects.
Friend or foe? – The challenge with Coopetition
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Open Innovation examples
This article proposes a few examples of companies that have chosen the path of open innovation. Innovation is more than ever in the core of the corporate strategy, no matter what the size of the company is. The intensification of
Open Innovation 2.0
Open Innovation 2.0 is a positive approach for innovation which helps solving key European challenges by embracing change, not resisting it! Open Innovation Open Innovation is an important component of the foreseen European Innovation System, where all stakeholders need
The good expert
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