How do you solicit new product ideas from employees? I'd like to learn how companies solicit new product ideas from employees. Do you have the equivalent of an on-line suggestion box? Do you issue a...
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Open Innovation
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 26, 2011
Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing, Collective Commons Networks Tim Bernstein, Chief Operating Officer, Yet2.com Where is this field of Open Innovation networks and social networking evolving? What are...
May 26, 2011
Making R&D into a Sport Anthony Goldbloom, Founder & CEO, Kaggle In an age of big and complex data, competitions appear to be the best way to get the most out of a predictive modeling problem...
May 25, 2011
Proudly Found Elsewhere: Models for Innovation at NASA Doug Comstock, Director of Partnerships, Innovation and Commercial Space, NASA HQ As NASA pushes the frontiers in air and space, there are many...
May 25, 2011
Transforming an enterprise? Start a movement Liam Cleaver, Director, IBM In the age of the social network (the new normal), employees expect to have a say in transformation efforts. Social media...
May 25, 2011
Prizes in the Obama Administration Robynn Sturm, Advisor for Open Innovation to the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Experience to Date and Potential for...
May 30, 2011
The Big Win-Win: Putting Prizes to Work for Your Organization Erika Wagner, PhD, Senior Director, Exploration Prize Development, X PRIZE Foundation From the early European Longitude Prizes to modern...
May 25, 2011
Finding Innovative Ideas from Non-Traditional Sources Louis Foreman, Founder and Chief Executive, Enventys; CEO, Edison Nation It is difficult to look at a business magazine, read an annual report,...
November 08, 2011
The Ups and Downs of Open Innovation in Healthcare Paul Nakagaki, Head, New Innovation Models, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd The innovation and business press is filled with the benefits of working with “...
May 10, 2012
Lessons Learned from Selection and Execution of Emerging Business Areas Robert Kirschbaum, Vice President Open Innovation, Royal DSM The Dutch company Royal DSM has changed its business portfolio...
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...
How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
A global scholarship program to support young scientists. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentations/42512
Getting the right balance between opportunistic finds and directed OI https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation... Spring 2014
November 19, 2013
Science 2025: Everyone's a Scientist Ms. Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future With advances in mobile technologies and citizen science communities, the line between a scientist...