INNOVATION
Is Our Niche Safe from Google?
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...
Citroën Creative Awards
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 from 87...
Trust within the (French) pact for competitiveness
"Promoting innovation and quality, entrepreneurship and risk-taking, breaking down barriers and working together, developing skills and (re)giving a taste for technical progress, opening new spaces for dialogue and stimulating collective intelligence. Here are all the...
Le(s) champ(s) de l’open innovation
Qui aujourd'hui ne s'accorde pas sur l’importance croissante de la part de la R&D des entreprises se déroulant hors de ses frontières ou à ses frontières ? Du côté de la recherche en sciences de gestion, les académiciens sont dans le mouvement et s'intéressent de...
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...