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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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Open Innovation vs Closed Innovation: Here’s the Lowdown

Qmarkets

Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. Where open innovation and closed innovation models differ is the question of who should be included in these conversations. What is Open Innovation?

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Open Innovation vs Closed Innovation: Here’s the Lowdown

Qmarkets

Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. Where open innovation and closed innovation models differ is the question of who should be included in these conversations. What is Open Innovation?

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Report Highlights Skills Shortage in Open Innovation

Innovation Excellence

More and more companies are engaging in some form of open innovation, but such an approach requires a new way of working that employees are often ill-equipped to undertake. That's the argument put forth by a new paper from The European Academic Network for Open Innovation.

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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

IdeaScale

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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3 Open Innovation Reports You Need to Read Right Now

Planview

In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing.

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Open Innovation Meets Democracy on Malta

IdeaConnection

The island country of Malta may start to change the way it does politics, by taking an open innovation approach. Within the last few days the Nationalist Party, a Maltese Christian democratic and conservative party launched the IDEAT project to encourage citizen engagement.