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The building blocks of open innovation lead towards Business Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

IdeaScale

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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Open Innovation Experiment Joins the Fight against Cancer

IdeaScale

Open innovation is giving doctors another tool to fight cancer. They decided to find out by running an open innovation initiative with $55,000 in prizes on the site Topcoder, which had a strong community of AI imaging experts. Open innovation puts patient care first.?. The Tumor Hunt.

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Webinar to Highlight Best Practices from NASA’s Internal Crowdsourcing Journey

IdeaScale

Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. As a leader within your organization, you want to take every opportunity to foment an atmosphere in which an open exchange of ideas can take place, where people can give opinions without fear of retribution or ridicule. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing?

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The Leadership of Open Innovation

Speaker: Paul Sloane, Director, Destination Innovation

Paul Sloane is a well-known author and speaker on open innovation. In this on-demand recorded session, Paul will takes through the breadth of what open innovation can be for organizations and the value it can bring. Of course, innovation where other parties are involved means a different leadership approach.

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A Portal to Open Innovation: Insights from yet2’s webinar with industry leaders

Yet2

However, it can be difficult to market innovation needs efficiently and attract the right submitters. yet2 hosted a webinar with Tomoharu Hayama, Open Innovation Manager, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, and Kendra Gittus, Global Innovation Lead, Syngenta, to discuss open innovation portal setup, insights, and outcomes.

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How Design Thinking Complements Crowdsourced Innovation

IdeaScale

Combining methods is one of the ways I make sure they make the most out of their innovation efforts. In this post, I’d like to talk about how design thinking complements crowdsourced innovation. I don’t think I need to point out the obvious parallels to crowdsourcing here, do I? The two methods are a natural fit.