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Announcing the 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

IdeaConnection

Do you want to hear about the latest open innovation research? Are you keen to know more about how open innovation can help your business? If so, point your feet toward Silicon Valley, San Francisco this coming December for the 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC 2017).

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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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Open Innovation Success Stories in the Car Industry

IdeaConnection

Open innovation success stories abound in multiple industries as enterprises the world over seek the wisdom of the crowd to help them develop new products and services, get over innovation roadblocks, see where their industries are heading and to steal a march on their competitors.

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The UBS Future of Finance Challenge 2017

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This week was the culmination of the UBS Future of Finance Challenge 2017 , an open innovation competition to find the innovators around the world who are transforming the world of banking and finance. Congratulations to all involved. Watch this space.

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Open Innovation to Solve Health and Medical Problems

IdeaConnection

Members of the crowd play their part too via open innovation contests and hackathons. With this knowledge, therapeutics can be designed to combat them. It was the winner of the MIT Hacking Medicine Robotics Singapore 2017.

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Open Innovation Search for Novel Smartphone Ideas

IdeaConnection

Calling all big thinkers, innovators and visionaries, ZTE USA want your smartphone ideas. The phone manufacturer has launched an open innovation contest called Project CSX inviting the crowd to come up with the company’s next mobile device, which will be launched onto the market next year. Contest Rules.

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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

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Mattia Visigalli Innovation Consultant - Group Strategy and Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group Zurich’s Open Innovation Strategy and Ecosystem Zurich’s collaboration partners span a range of different entities within a mature and well- structured open innovation ecosystem. This is the zebra.