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Innovation Roundup: The Top Innovations in 2016

IdeaScale

2016 has been a year of crazy ups and downs. We’ve lost some amazing celebrities, had one of the most unique presidential campaigns in history, and experienced incredible innovations as well. The top innovations of 2016 have not only impacted this year, but will continue to impact business and technology for years to come.

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Open Innovation: Your Guide to Harnessing and Managing the Best Ideas

IdeaScale

Open innovation allows everyone to compete equally, whether their development budget is large or small. What is Open Innovation. Open innovation is a paradigm shift that assumes organizations can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas to determine as path to market and advance technology.

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Winners of Nokia’s 2016 Open Innovation Challenge Announced

IdeaConnection

A big round of applause is due to the winners of Nokia’s 2016 Open Innovation Challenge, a global search for the next big ideas in the Internet of Things (IoT). Among the winning concepts was a firewall for the connected home and a home medical innovation that can help with the early detection of breast cancer.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. JUMP stands for J oin the discussion, U nveil innovation, M otivate transformation, P romote technology-to-market. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy.

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Open Innovation Challenge and the Internet of Things

IdeaConnection

Communications and information technology giant Nokia has launched its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge for the fourth year running, and this time round is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). “The Nokia Open Innovation Challenge 2016 is looking for the next best ideas for connecting people and things.”.

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Solve Food Industry Challenges at Open Innovation Event

IdeaConnection

If so, you’ll have an opportunity to grab their attention at the 5th Food & FMCG Innovation Pitching Event. This open innovation gathering is taking place on November 23 at Food Matters Live, a trade fair and conference at ExCel in London. Marketing and business models – including social media and new business models.

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Effective communication is the essence of open innovation

Wellspring

Dow AgroSciences is very open about the complexity of their R&D pipeline. They told Grainews in 2016 that, on average, 10 years elapse between idea generation and market launch.