by Jacques Knight | Apr 20, 2015 | INNOVATION
Marc Giget strikes again. The innovation thinker who pens forewords is also the focal point around which the French innovation community gathers. Over 200 people attended this week’s edition of his seminar. Topic of the session : Open Innovation — perspectives after...
by Albert Meige | Mar 23, 2015 | INNOVATION
In our book Innovation Intelligence, we give an overview of recent, disruptive trends that induce changes in the way large corporations deal with open innovation. The book was written after approximately 40 interviews with the Chief Technology Officers and Chief...
by Albert Meige | Sep 9, 2013 | INNOVATION
On June 18th 2013, Marc Giget invited me (Albert Meige) to the “Mardis de l’Innovation” to give a non-serious conference on the theme “Magic & Innovation”. For the occasion, I also asked my friend Frank Debouck (head of the Ecole Centrale Lyon...
by Darko Jesic | Aug 21, 2013 | INNOVATION
In the beginning of the 21st century Henry Chesbrough coined the paradigm of Open Innovation in management sciences. Open Innovation is defined as “the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use...
by Jacques Knight | Feb 20, 2013 | INNOVATION
At Presans, a question we ask ourselves every now and then is: could it happen that a big player, say, Google, decides to enter the business of open innovation in one way or another? Google already provides very decent patent and search tools for free. What about...
by Jacques Knight | Jan 11, 2013 | INNOVATION
Citroën recently launched its 3rd Creative Awards on the topic of connected vehicle smartphone applications. The motto of the challenge: “Open up your ideas”. Participants have until 2/10/2013 to submit their proposals. In 2012 the challenge drew 802 ideas...