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Leveraging the Benefits of Open Innovation

IdeaScale

Open innovation is innovation where companies or organizations reach out to other companies, individuals, and the general public to create innovative products and services. Some open innovation partnerships include colleges and universities. R&D is expensive, but open innovation helps curtail the costs.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.

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How Effective is Open Innovation?

100%Open

For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Many organisations now have the opportunity to look back at their open innovation programmes with an appraising eye. With some evidence behind them, they are weighing up the effectiveness of being open. How open is your organisation ?

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

.” As HeroX have noted in their blog post reflecting on the interview, there are five main points that came across during the Twitter Space: 1 – Open Innovation metrics are possible. Principle number one is to measure the benefits and the costs from both perspectives in your open innovation partnership.

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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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New Open Innovation Platform for European Farmers

IdeaConnection

Farmers in Europe are set to receive open innovation help for implementing climate-smart agriculture policies and practices. This week saw the launch of Agrisource, Europe’s first open innovation platform for climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Powerful Open Innovation Support.

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Open Innovation Meets Democracy on Malta

IdeaConnection

The island country of Malta may start to change the way it does politics, by taking an open innovation approach. Every six minutes a new policy proposal idea is received. Over 30,000 votes were received to prioritize submitted policy ideas. Citizen-Centric Democracy.