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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

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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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. These responses are then broken down into themes, which provide the submission categories for the Innovation program. Popularized in a 2017 Medium article, zebra startups balance profitability with sustainability. This is the zebra.

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What Does a Healthy Innovation Portfolio Look Like?

eZassi

The biggest take-away from the HBR report and subsequent reports is that for an innovation program to be successful, the focus should be a mix of incremental (core), adjacent and transformational initiatives. This mix will enable a program to deliver results both in the near term and long term. In 2017, Inc.

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Pivotal Innovation Management: The Past, Present, and Future of 180° Business Changes

Qmarkets

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. Another use of an innovation management platform is as a scouting platform for companies looking to better track and manage their M&A activities.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

While mapping over 160 corporate innovation programs for the CREATORS Corporate Innovation Report 2017, we came across some successful examples of “spray and pray” elements in innovation strategy: Coca Cola invested in Spotify. It cannibalized its own core business.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.

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8 External Sources of Innovation

ITONICS

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.