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Companies betting big on open innovation

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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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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call.

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call.

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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.