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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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Open Innovation Solutions to Drought Problems

IdeaConnection

Congratulations to the EDDI team for taking the $100,000 first prize in Samsung’s ‘Makers against Drought Challenge’ The global contest received more than 500 ideas for open innovation projects involving IoT (internet of things) technology to solve such tricky challenges as water scarcity.

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What’s the key to success in corporate-startup collaboration?

HYPE Innovation

While research on corporate-startup collaboration is not new , it has attracted increasing interest in recent years.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Innovation Cycle (Avans). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Open Innovation (Chesbrough). Open Innovation Kick-Start Approach (AT Kearney). Open Innovation Requirement Model (AT Kearney). Experiments Open Innovation (Guinan).

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers. Bezos consistently took a stand for customers even when it led to controversy inside the company.

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When More is Less in Crowd-sourcing Innovation

Innovation Excellence

With crowd-sourcing innovation programs, the first impulse is to seek more ideas. In 2011, I launched the employee open innovation. Is more really better? What about idea quality? Does ‘more ideas’ work against idea quality? And if so, then what do you do about it?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

The model describes organizational typologies based on cultures of innovation. This model is drawn upon a combination of Quinn & Cameron’s values framework (2011) and Nagji and Tuff’s innovation ambition framework (2012). Each type of organization exists in three different levels of innovation. References.