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NASA Announces Winners of Open Innovation Robot Contest

IdeaConnection

When NASA wanted help for the design of its next robot it knew just where to go for innovative insights – the crowd. The space agency launched an open innovation competition to design an arm for a space robot named Astrobee, and the first winners have just been revealed.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.

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Challenging the Assumption of the Status Quo

Innovation Excellence

(A Lesson Learned from Yogurt) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In September 2006, I moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary assignment with BCG. As one does when arriving somewhere for an extended period, I went to the grocery store to stock my kitchen. Since the grocery store was on the ground floor of my […]

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems. Why does open innovation work?

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Qmarkets Partners with Wellspring to Offer a Data-Enriched Open Innovation Platform to Enterprise Clients

Qmarkets

The partnership will offer Qmarkets clients built-in innovation research capabilities, through a seamless integration of the Wellspring innovation ‘search engine’ that gives access to a wealth of proprietary data sources for technology scouting, corporate venturing, innovation trends, IP licensing, and more.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Organizational learning helps innovative organizations to deal with the ever-changing, unsure and unpredictable context of business (Van De Vrande, 2017). It helps in organization your partner-network and starting open innovation projects. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635. References.

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Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Open Innovation EU

Jan Spruijt is an expert in Innovation Sciences. He designs business simulations, academic programs, masterclasses, courses, keynotes and learning material in the field of strategic design, organization design and (open) innovation. Connect with Jan at jan@openinnovatie.nl for opportunities.