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Revolutionizing the Deal-Making Landscape: yet2’s 11 Deals in a Single Month

Yet2

Looking back even further, in the first half of 2009, we completed 14 deals, which was our past record. Deals were done for clients across health, government, and hygiene industries, with promising technologies around AI custom skin care solutions and renewable energy technologies. Where have our deals come from?

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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.” ” ( Chesbrough, 2003 ). Route 2: Co-patenting.

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Report Highlights Increased Open Innovation Activity

IdeaConnection

Open innovation is thriving. That’s one of the conclusions of the 2016 State of Innovation Report: Disruptive, Game-Changing Innovation by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Among the key findings were: Worldwide patent volume grew at an annualized rate of 13.7

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Open Innovation and IP Contamination: Are you at risk?

Yet2

Open Innovation (OI) refers to the practice of accelerating innovation by leveraging ideas and technologies from outside sources. Since the introduction of the term in 2003, OI has become a way of being for companies looking to keep an edge on the competition, from large corporations to small and medium size enterprises.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. The business case for open innovation . The development of open innovation.

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IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew

IdeaScale

From there, IdeaScale expanded to serve many more government agencies as well as private enterprises, ultimately becoming the world’s largest open innovation software platform. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. In times of crisis, consumers cut on spendings deemed unnecessary like technology.

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