June 01, 2015
Listen to Dave McCann, VP of Amazon’s AWS Marketplace, discuss the importance of networking and what he sees as the bigger point to be made about its value during a panel discussion on “Democratizing...
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May 25, 2011
The X PRIZE Model Erika Wagner, PhD, Senior Director, Exploration Prize Development, X PRIZE Foundation Learn how companies can use competitions to enhance their R&D portfolio and engage user...
May 08, 2012
Innovating Globally via Open Innovation Partnerships Ashish Chatterjee, Managing Director, Connect+Develop, Global Business Development, P&G Innovating for the global consumer would be easier if...
April 28, 2015
Accelerate an Open Community Movement Jonathan Kuniholm, President, Open Prosthetics Project How could we help the Open Prosthetics Project better encourage innovation in prosthetic arms or in orphan...
April 29, 2015
Extreme Customer Centricity for Research in Service Organizations: A TCS Approach K. Ananth Krishnan, Vice President & CTO, TATA Consultancy Service A service organization has the opportunity to...
October 20, 2015
Hack-a-Thon: How do you make the fastest minimum viable product to test with your customer group? In order to tackle the overarching topic of how R&D can best equip itself to compete with start-...
October 20, 2015
The Impact IoT on a Durables Business Mark L. Karasek, Executive Vice President of Engineering & Chief Technology Officer, The Chamberlain Group, Inc. The Chamberlain Group is a traditional...
October 19, 2015
Robert J. Kumpf, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Elevance Renewable Sciences Agile and growth are two words that are not typically applied to the chemical industry but that is changing. Particularily...
November 01, 2011
IBM has been conducting “Jams†for 10 years now. A Jam is an intense, large-scale, online discussion about an issue that matters. Jams have been sponsored to engage employees about corporate values,...
November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) for Energy-Efficient Buildings is breaking new ground on how public-private research partnerships are conducted. A consortium of public,...
November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Innovation is essential to success in today’s world. Many companies have strong R&D departments, but sometimes the greatest innovations come from those who know the company and its...
November 01, 2011
A clear, measurable end goal with a variety of motivators, well-designed prizes leverage the principles of competition to bring a field of solvers to bear on a given challenge. Prizes offer...
September 25, 2011
Henry Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation†with the publication of his book by that title in 2003. Since that time, there has been a flurry of experimentation with different styles of open...
September 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: In addition to acquiring external technology, many industrial firms now seek to license their technology out to external partners. These technology out-licensing activities promise...
Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
March 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: With the diffusion of the open-innovation paradigm, more companies are selling their technological knowledge, disembodied from physical artifacts, to other organizations in an attempt to...