INNOVATION
Eric von Hippel (MIT) vs. Bernard Charlès (CEO of Dassault Systemes)
Interdisciplinary institute for Innovation, i³, created by TELECOM ParisTech and MINES ParisTech organised an inauguration conference on 14th June at MINES ParisTech. i³is a new centre of research and teaching, which brings together 180 economists, management...
Open Innovation at LEGO: an interview with Erik Hansen
As LEGO presents one of the first companies that successfully introduced various Open Innovation practices, we were wondering how they perform nowadays and what thein main challenges are. Insipired by our last article “Open Innovation, crowdsourcing and the rebirth of...
Club de l’Industrie Bordeaux
“Même un grand groupe n’a pas la capacité à suivre les expertises dans tous les domaines” - Michaël Haddad Le Club Industrie a réuni autour du thème de l’Open Innovation pour les PME à Bordeaux le 26 avril une variété d’acteurs représentatifs du système d’innovation...
Innovation Barometer 2012
Crisis and paradox GE France commented on the results of the second annual GE Innovation Barometer a while ago. The results bear witness to the damaging impact of the economic crisis on the ability of businesses to engage in innovation. Managers who responded...
Points de vue sur l’innovation : un entretien avec Dario Liguti et Laurent Wormser de GE France (1/2)
"L’avantage d’être un conglomérat, et l’avantage d’avoir une division dédiée à la R&D, c’est que cela nous permet de réaliser une cross-fertilization entre les différentes branches de la science, et entre les différents domaines dans lesquels nous travaillons."...
Open Innovation and Public Policies in Europe
Henry CHESBROUGH & Wim VANHAVERBEKE, fathers of Open Innovation have just released a very insightful report on Open Innovation and public policies in Europe, in collaboration with Tuba BAKICI and Henry LOPEZ-VEGA. Abstract of the report Industrial...
Schneider Electric: Focusing Research on Use Cases
During the conference on Open Innovation and the Globalization of Research organized by L'Usine Nouvelle on the 1st of December 2011, Claude Ricaud, Sr VP Innovation of the Power division of Schneider Electric presented his vision of innovation. Presans was there to...
Open Innovation – what’s behind the buzzword?
Yesterday (Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011), we were invited to by the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness i7, the ESCP (Ecole Supérieur de Commerce de Paris) and Accenture who presented their report entitled "Open Innovation: What's Behind the Buzzword?" at...
Testing Perceptions : the GE Ecomagination Challenge
(Français) Second billet d’une série.
The Role of Innovation at a Global Level: The Case of Continental AG
At the Grenoble Innovation Fair, the first keynote speaker was Reiner Hoeger, Director Engineering Governance and head of innovation at Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG). Reiner gave a very bright talk on his vision of innovation at Continental AG. His talk...