INNOVATION
A Novel Approach for Open Innovation Platforms : Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing : Introduction
Open Innovation is necessary Resources in the traditional ecosystem of a company appear to be insufficient for many industrial or business needs. Open Innovation is the paradigm according to which companies need to use external ideas, knowledge & technologies to...
A Novel Approach for Open Innovation Platforms : Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing
Open Innovation platforms (and especially problem solving platforms) have received increasing attention over the last few years. Although much hope was initially put into them, it gradually faded away and changed in some form of mistrust, because of a number of...
Innovation & Open Innovation at Schneider Electric
At the seminar "Innovation, convergence of approaches" co-organized by INOVA and Alma Consulting Group, Xavier Bonnaud, Innovation Manager of the "Services Industrie" Department at Schneider Electric, has presented some aspects of their innovation policy. The team of...
Do You Believe in Social Networks for Researchers?
There has been tens, if not hundreds, of attempts to launch social networks for scientists and for researchers over the last 3 years. The new "Linkedin for Researchers" or "Facebook for Scientists": www.collab.com, www.academia.edu, www.academiaconnect.org,...
French Public Research is Not Wired for Innovation
At the Roundtable "SMEs: how to integrate advanced technologies, in partnership with public research" held at the "RDV Carnot" on May 5th and 6th in Lyon, Florin Paun, Deputy Director for Industrial Innovation at ONERA, explained why "the French research is not wired...
Obama’s Innovation Strategy is 2.0
While the French government has recently launched “Le Moteur de la Recherche” to increase collaboration between public and industrial research, President Barack Obama recently signed a memorandum that highlights issues related to the implementation of his...
Serendipity and Innovation
Many innovations are related to chance, a set of fortuitous conditions (happy or unhappy). However, chance is not enough. Knowledge and experience are necessary to transform the set of conditions into innovation. This is the concept behind the word “serendipity”. This...
Open Innovation : Obama vs Sarkozy
In August 2009 White House sent a memorandum to the executives of various research agencies and departments regarding Science and Technology priorities for 2011 budget. The memorandum explains the prioritization regarding science and technology activities and...
Interview with Frédérique Sachwald
Frederique Sachwald, Ph.D. in economics, graduated from IEP Paris and University of Cambridge. Frederique Sachwald is Head of the Business R&D Department, Ministry of Higher Education and Research in France. She is the author of several reports on the open...
Open Innovation, crowdsourcing and the rebirth of LEGO
There are 62 LEGO bricks per person in the world. The turnover of the Danish group has increased by 38% in 2008 to reach 182 million Euros. However, LEGO, having experienced the first loss in its history in 1998, recorded a historic loss of 188 million Euros in 2003,...
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