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Innovation Management in 2023: Open Innovation & Partnerships

Innov8rs

For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below. What can’t be missing?

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

The strong customer advocate knows the landscape, keeps customers top-of-mind, represents the “voice of the customer”, sets expectations around customer value, supports open innovation with customers, and keeps future customers in mind. Support staff to engage in open innovation with customers.

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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

The Direction Setter Leadership Role. They also secure funding for these priorities and make sure their innovators know resources are available for solutions that move the business in the intended direction. Innovation is a journey into the unknown, and there are multiple paths and many options open to the leadership team.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. Essentially, any element of the organization can play its part in making innovation possible and probable.

System 100
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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. Essentially, any element of the organization can play its part in making innovation possible and probable.

System 100
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Sharp (2010) has found that there is strong paradox in (entrepreneurial) leadership when it comes to innovation at the personal level of the entrepreneur. Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, 1, 104–126. Cultural differences in innovation championing strategies. 8: The Impact Paradox. Johnson, D.,