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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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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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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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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

As recently as 2011 90% of Lego’s users were boys. A typical engineering mistake is wanting to invent all the things the product might consist of in one go. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”. Study the user in action. Lego commissioned detailed ethnographic studies to determine why this was.

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Simon Hill shortlisted for The TechXLR8 2020 Tech Leader of the Year Award

Wazoku

programme, and agreed a major new partnership with US Open Innovation firm InnoCentive. In the spirit of innovation, “it is important for us to keep pushing the boundaries of what we can offer to drive value and new solutions for our global clients” said Simon. In the last 12 months alone, Simon has: closed a £2.5M