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Google expands Start-up University | 13 February 2012 – 11:43 am

Started in early 2009, Google Ventures has seen an increasing number of successful investments over recent years. As part of the program Google Ventures launched a Start-up Lab program to create an innovation lab; a place where entrepreneurs can develop their products, collaborate and tap into google employees. Moreover, to develop in-depth knowledge, Google Ventures created the Start-up University, a place where entrepreneurs “can bring questions, curiosity and unsolved problems to the table.” This

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6 leading pharma players join forces to beat costs | 2 February 2012 – 4:48 pm

Six leading companies from the pharmaceutical industry have decided to join forces to beat cost pressures. While on the one hand being strong competitors, they on the other hand decided to get together and share best practises in “a bid to improve efficiency and  bring down rising operation costs.” This article was brought to our attention by one of our readers; thanks for sharing this example with us, Aravind Ananthakrishnan

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3 aspects in which Open Innovation companies distinguish themselves: results from science | 31 January 2012 – 1:51 pm

Recently, the Open Innovation Research Forum – part of the University of Cambridge – released a paper that shows results of a study among almost 1200 German innovation companies. The paper provides the hypothesis that several different innovation-enabling factors would generate more revenue within companies that embrace Open Innovation than within companies that don’t. To be precise: the authors refer to Open Innovation as the use of “search openness”, i.e. the use of external

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Open innovation in action: DSM | 30 January 2012 – 8:55 pm

Together with InnoPass and ideaken, DSM has launched an open innovation contest to get new and creative ideas on the applications of Arnitel® Eco, an environmental friendly elastomer. The prize? Tickets to the 2012 London Olympics. For more information, visit the ideaken website. To participate, submit your idea by March 1, 2012!

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Breakthrough Innovation 2012 | 20 January 2012 – 2:59 pm

Gallery Hotel, Barcelona, 14 & 15 March 2012 Now in its fourth year, Breakthrough Innovation 2012 will once again bring together leading experts from the world’s most innovative companies to share best practice tips and discuss the latest trends and developments. The conference will feature a variety of sessions designed to maximise social interaction and knowledge exchange, including brainstorming sessions, talking circles, panel debates and keynote case studies.  There will

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What trends make Innovation Managers sweat? | 13 January 2012 – 2:40 pm

After having succesfully launched a poll in December, we decided to drop a new question for you. 2012 has just started and many newspapers, blogs and video’s are trying to show us the trends for upcoming year. Summarizing speeches of professional trendwatchers I ran into lately, I could identify a few trends that are interesting for 2012. Epxerience economy Most of the trendwatchers are seeing trends in the way consumers are acting in the market.

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Greatest advantages of Open Innovation | 12 January 2012 – 7:02 pm

Last month, we released a Poll on linkedin and dropped the question “What is the greatest advantage of Open Innovation”. Quite some people voted and a good discussion started off. The results were as following:       What is the greatest advantage of Open Innovation? The result was not completely unexpected. Obviously, on the first hand, Open Innovation is meant to innovate faster and better. To my opinion, and some

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Exclusive preview: Managing Open Innovation | 5 January 2012 – 12:41 pm

We collaborated with Marcel Bogers, Associate Professor* at the University of Southern Denmark, to show you an exclusive preview of a lecture on “Managing Open Innovation”, that will air on Danish television later this winter. The lecture is about the “sources for innovation”: how to obtain and make use of external knowledge to commercialize ideas into innovations. The talk focuses on Open Innovation and the role that companies and users play in

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A New Model for Innovation: Fast Track Innovation | 2 January 2012 – 11:10 am

Recently, I spoke to Deloitte‘s Innovation Concepts Manager Marc Maes and Innovation Consultant Klaas Langeveld about their idea of managing innovation and idea generation within companies. They explained me about their Fast Track strategy and their home-made Innovation Maturity Model. The model intrigued me because of its fairly complete coverage of innovation-related issues and its slim simplicity. It triggered me to grab some literature to find prove of this model. My rationality: if it looks simple and complete,

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The best Open Innovation posts of 2011 | 29 December 2011 – 12:26 pm

The year is almost over and many of us are spending our holidays search our social media accounts for interesting blog posts while watching the snowflakes or, in our case, the raindrops falling. To make this year’s ending even more comfortable for you, we have searched through the web to gather the best Open Innovation posts of this year. Note: we have used search enginges such as Twitter’s Advanced Search, Google

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