eZassi

MARCH 11, 2025

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), in the context of innovation, refers to the practice of established corporations investing directly in external startup companies to achieve strategic objectives. Our unique approach to technology scouting, partner identification, and expert engagement is designed to: Keep the innovation pipeline full.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 21, 2025

Implementing AI in your decision-making processes can result in: Faster time-to-market for new products Reduced costs of innovation Improved alignment with market demands For instance, AI can play a powerful role in ai for rapid prototyping and ai for concept testing , ensuring that your innovations are both viable and aligned with consumer needs.

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Yet2

APRIL 11, 2022

As providers of both proactive technology scouting services and open innovation portals, we often get asked when to use each approach. They serve different purposes, but you might be surprised to learn they’re also complementary: ~80% of our portal clients also hire yet2 for proactive technology scouting work.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 18, 2019

Companies that use open innovation find freelancers to be a much-needed source of ideas, expertise, and specialized skills. Companies can incorporate project-specific hiring to pursue innovations without over-committing resources, and they can extend their geographic reach with the help of technology.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

This synergy will enhance our powerful technology scouting tool Q-scout and empower our clients to supercharge their open innovation initiatives.” We bring business and technical expertise and a deep network of resources across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.

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eZassi

AUGUST 30, 2017

Harvard Business Review Technology Scouting Study. Technology Scouting Can Increase the Rate and Potential for Meaningful Innovation. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Business Review makes the case for technology scouting while also admitting that it can turn into a double-edged sword when executed poorly.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

To look forward, I would argue we always need to look back and account for the progress made in managing innovation over the years. So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Briefly, I summarize what these have been bringing into innovative thinking.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 6, 2024

.” They are progressively replacing “just” innovation as this tends to be housed in one organization, to be developed and delivered on the resources and insights they have. Innovation Ecosystems are richer due to this diversity, different knowledge and market intelligence a broader group can bring into the thinking.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 3, 2025

In many cases, its not due to a lack of creativity, but a lack of clear direction. Without a focused approach, product innovation becomes a gamble instead of a growth strategy. This guide explains product innovation, how it differs from other forms of innovation, and what it takes to develop a winning strategy.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

Corporations have begun to appreciate the advantages of working with startups, with regards to inspiring innovation. Such innovations can come in the form of adopting new technologies, but also by adapting the business practices typically associated with startup culture. Open innovation program. Sponsorship.

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Yet2

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

You have heard about Open Innovation in the news, but are hesitant to implement OI because you think it won’t be successful. Below are 6 myths about open innovation that will make you rethink your reluctance. Nobody Has Success Using Open Innovation. Open Innovation is a Passing Fad.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

The topics are diverse and offer valuable insight into what it takes to innovate in the ever-changing technological landscape of today. From training and education to open innovation, support for SMEs and more, it’s all at your fingertips. IdeaScale: Calculating ROI for Your Open Innovation Program Workshop.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. It adjusts and you learn.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

This collaborative approach to innovation – also known as Open Innovation – can come in many shapes and sizes. How to measure your corporate’s open innovation activities? Open Innovation: Pros & Cons Corporations can’t always undertake innovation on their own. Joint Ventures (e.g.,

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eZassi

AUGUST 30, 2022

Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process these ideas through the pipeline. Technology Scouting. Review Calculators and Analytics.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Now Amazon, is known not only as an online product retailer, but as an open marketplace where customers can find full information on products they might want to buy. They can find product reviews—whether positive or negative, can post their own reviews, can interact with other customers, and can even sell their used products back to others.

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Yet2

JANUARY 15, 2023

As innovation experts we strive to innovate our own processes, recently we shared our advances in ‘big data’ analyses in our blog and here we begin to delve into the possibility of using AI as an open innovation tool. Finally, ChatGPT can be used as a tool for experimentation and exploration.

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Yet2

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Adding to that roster of open innovation services, over the past 12 – 24 months, several of our subscription clients have asked us to perform anonymous searches for them. Hence the need to engage a partner like yet2 to conduct an anonymous technology search or due diligence inquiry. Technology or company history.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We see mergers, closures, or once great beacons of industry shrink before our eyes due to new alternatives. We feel increasingly unsafe unless we happen to be one of those sitting in a technology-related business where growth has been extraordinary in recent years (e.g., Open Innovation: Hosted Accelerator or Corporate Incubator.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I see great synergies between us not only due to our complementary offering, but also in terms of client base, where we already have many customers in common.” The post Qmarkets Partners with hpo management consulting to Strengthen DACH Enterprise Innovation Management Offering appeared first on Qmarkets.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

I see great synergies between us not only due to our complementary offering, but also in terms of client base, where we already have many customers in common.” The post Qmarkets Partners with hpo management consulting to Strengthen DACH Enterprise Innovation Management Offering appeared first on Qmarkets.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

Companies working in isolation may miss out on the vast pool of external knowledge and innovative ideas that could propel them forward. The closed innovation model can result in slower innovation cycles, higher costs, and increased risk of obsolescence in a rapidly changing market. But what is open innovation?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

However, while launching the initiative is what they invest in, they don’t dedicate time and resources to then review and prioritise all of the ideas generated. Again, oftentimes these ideas are never reviewed and never had a chance of being implemented. This builds frustration among all of the people who submitted ideas.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 27, 2025

From advanced AI-driven capabilities in startup scouting to significant improvements in user engagement and system accessibility, read on as we review how these innovations are propelling your own innovation strategies with Qmarkets in 2025 and beyond.AI-Enhanced Enhanced Startup Scouting Research.

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Yet2

JULY 3, 2024

” The challenge arises when scouts, exploring innovation ecosystems, struggle to find enabling technology, leading to a crucial dilemma—did the scouts perform inadequately, or does the desired solution really not exist? Such restrictive ideal (“nice to have”) requirements can easily hobble the external innovation process.

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Yet2

JANUARY 4, 2024

However, it can be difficult to market innovation needs efficiently and attract the right submitters. yet2 hosted a webinar with Tomoharu Hayama, Open Innovation Manager, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, and Kendra Gittus, Global Innovation Lead, Syngenta, to discuss open innovation portal setup, insights, and outcomes.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below. What can’t be missing?

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eZassi

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Announcing Technology Scouting Excellence Speakers. Today we are excited to announce the speaker lineup for the Technology Scouting 2017 conference. The speaker lineup includes: Denise Fletcher , Chief Innovation Officer. Ezassi (former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox). Manager / Principal Scientist, Open Innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

By engaging employees, customers, and external experts, companies can access innovative solutions that drive efficiency and growth. Here are just a few examples of crowdsourcing in action: Open Innovation Challenges Many companies use open innovation challenges to source breakthrough ideas from a wide audience.

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mjvinnovation

MARCH 3, 2020

In this article, you’ll see how this as well as open innovation are at the base of Digital Transformation. Keep reading and understand how interconnected they areas well as how they facilitate the efforts of modern companies to be more innovative and harness the advantages of digital technology!

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Companies don’t fail at innovation due to lack of ideas. They often don’t create the right innovation structure to implement their opportunities. Most organizations struggle with innovation. I had the chance to take a look at the new book “Built to Innovate” by INSEAD professor Ben Bensaou.

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eZassi

JULY 13, 2017

A focus on R&D spending might be a good way to gauge best practice within an industry, but it is not a measure of how innovative any company is. Having a great R&D process and achieving market success with the technologies we invent are two different things.” Ezassi provides a safe solution for Open Innovation technology.

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Yet2

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We won’t get any quality submissions that will add value to our innovation strategies” Yes, you will receive a lot of submissions that will be rejected immediately, but you will be pleasantly surprised with how many quality submissions you will get. We want to set the record straight and bust these myths once and for all. “We

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eZassi

JULY 3, 2017

Open Innovation Shouldn’t Be a Hard Sell, But It Is. At Ezassi, we believe whole-heartedly in the importance of innovation to progress and the survival of businesses. That being said, we also fully recognize that convincing decision makers to go forward with innovation initiatives can be a hard sell.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy? Did you know innovation can bridge social, cultural, and political differences? New technologies and ideas can spread quickly across the world, closing the gap to bring these matters together. Sign up for The Future Festival, Think, Open Nation, and more.

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Yet2

JANUARY 9, 2023

As leaders in Open Innovation, at yet2 we strive to innovate ourselves. This step helps make the dataset more manageable for our team of OI consultants, taking datasets as large as 10,000 data points down to a few hundred or so top relevant data points for further human review and filtering.

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