What is Your Experience with Open Innovation Firms? What has been your experience (positive or negative) using Open Innovation firms (i.e.: Innocentive, Nine Sigma, Yet2.com; others) to communicate...
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Open Innovation
Can you recommend an open innovation intermediary? Does anyone have recommendations for any open innovation partners, scouting firms, or intermediaries who specialize in or have capabilities aimed...
Can you measure how the rest of the company feels about open innovation? As a company’s OI activities progress from entirely informal to having an established program and/or function to having an OI...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: In the context of open innovation, ï¬rms increasingly rely on the collaboration of suppliers in their innovation processes. However, not all competent suppliers are willing to collaborate...
How do you handle unsolicited ideas from external sources? While using Open Innovation as a way of bringing in new ideas from the outside world, what is your company IP policy for unsolicited ideas...
July 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Online collaboration is a powerful tool for boosting idea generation in large corporations. However, management may experience an overload of proposals from employees. To improve front-end...
May 01, 2013
Eric von Hippel has been studying innovation by users for over 30 years. His book The Sources of Innovation (1994) documented the degree to which users were responsible for functionally novel...
May 01, 2013
Thanks to Eric von Hippel, the existence of the user-innovator is widely acknowledged, if still not well understood by many ï¬rms. Still, some companies are engaging with user-innovators in productive...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Successful product innovation has been recognized as an outcome of integrating users into the development process. This study compares the characteristics and motives for product...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Living labs are innovation infrastructures within which software companies and research organizations collaborate with lead users and early adopters in creating participative strategies to...
May 01, 2013
When I was a graduate student, I had a compelling need for sleep. My thesis involved many experiments in sequence, each of which required me to spend about 20 hours doing the analytical chemistry to...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Current approaches to open innovation can be characterized in two general categories: open-boundary innovation and open-source innovation. Open-boundary innovation is designed to source new...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Is it necessary or even possible to apply the management technology of open innovation to all projects in the same way? An analysis of the practices used in different product development...
September 01, 2014
As the senior technical leader for vehicle design and infotronics, Venkatesh Prasad has led the creation of an open-source platform to blend the digital and automotive worlds. View full article or...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: This article addresses one of the many unexplored challenges associated with closing open innovation—the intellectual property (IP) disassembly problem. This is the problem of disentangling...
July 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Idea contests can play an important role in fostering creativity and innovation among employees. We report the results of an evaluation of the Eureka idea contest at Deltares, a Dutch...