The past couple of years have seen the concept of open innovation evolve in specific ways. With aspects like collaborative innovation being born today, enterprises have adopted these new trends and taken full advantage of them. Since ancient times, man
Report: Fostering Open Innovation among SMEs through Social and Eco Innovation
The report (drawn up by FLA – Lombardy Foundation for the Environment) wants to highlight the role that the social and environmental dimensions of innovation may deliver to the Open Alps project. It shows three experiences developed on three distinct
Better, Faster, Harder: SME Open Innovation
The demand for innovation is becoming increasingly pressing and is accelerating… paving the way for SME open innovation We observe that even on the historical offer-driven markets as consumer electronics, the demand side is now imposing the pace, not the
When Open Innovation breaks computing limits and ROI
Xerox Realbusiness blog published a stunning article on the Open Innovation ROI in medical science. They relate how the Harvard Medical School (HMS) used Open Innovation and a developpers’ contest to dramatically improve gene sequencing performance. The MegaBLAST algorithm from the National
McDonald’s goes Open Innovation
When the German branch of the American hamburger giant celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011, McDonald’s marketing experts started a campaign called Mein Burger (“my burger”) in order to establish and strengthen ties with the national fast food community. For
Open innovation and intellectual property rights: contradiction and complementation
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
Background When globalisation ushered in a new era of international competition a few decades ago companies from industrialised countries suddenly found themselves rivaling in an unprecedented price war. Simultaneously, rapid developments in the field of information and communication technology could
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
What is a good expert and how to find one? The experts are essential to our businesses, particularly those wishing to innovate. Innovation often requires, starting from market and customers’ expectations, to answer new questions. Experts have knowledge related to