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Companies betting big on open innovation

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In 2014, Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence , a startup innovation program, was launched to embrace “openness” and transform the IoT/IoE and Big Data spaces. GE's FirstBuild (a maker community) is an online and physical community which brings together designers, engineers, builders, and selling the next generation of major home appliances.”

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7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

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Innovative companies usually adopt the “20 percent rule” , which allows employees to dedicate 20% of their work time to projects that have nothing to do with their job description. Interestingly, Gmail , Google News , and AdSense evolved out of 20% projects. Top Model Principle.

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