EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS
Even Newton Could be Wrong – The Movie
For those who had not seen it when we published it on PRESANS, here is our short movie describing our service "Connect & Solve". The movie was realized by an awesome company in California.
New ad campain
This is a photo of our new ad campaign in US... Photo by Chop Foto 😉
PRESANS Data Center
Vassilis, the CTO of PRESANS, setting up our brand new servers. Faster Crawling. Faster indexing. Faster answers Expert identification.
Best practices in terms of university – industry collaborations – Part 2
Collaborations between university and industry (UI collaborations) can be fairly complicated. This is the case in France, as in other countries. In the first part of this article, I gave a summary of best practices in terms of UI collaborations. These best practices were extracted from a report of a study conducted by the National Council of University Research Administrators and the Industrial Research Institute in the United States.
In this second part of the article, I’d like to provide some additional best practices compiled from a study that Edward Spencer Calder conducted as part of his Masters at MIT.
Best practices in terms of university – industry collaborations – Part 1
Within the Open Innovation paradignm, collaborations between industry and academia, that is to say between the university, or more generally, public research and industry (named UI collaborations in the following), are encouraged. However, these collaborations are not...
Presans moving to X-Tec the company incubator of Ecole Polytechnique
When we moved to X-Tec, the incubator of the Ecole Polytechnique, everybody moved there stuff themselves... We only choose tough guys and girls!
L’Usine Nouvelle speaks about PRESANS
Aurélie Barbaux, journalist at the Usine Nouvelle, expert in Open Innovation speaks about PRESANS in her article "Outiller sa Politique d'Innovation", published in L'Usine Nouvelle in January 2010.
Open innovation and industrial secrets
We have seen the example of Apple and its iPhone, result of extensive collaborations with startups to produce a best-selling product. We are here in the very competitive sector of electronics products, with short cycles, intense competition on price, customers with...
Open Innovation in France
Open Innovation is the idea that a company can create value (product and services) not only by its internal workforce but as well through collaborations, licensing & spin-off. The concept of Open Innovation is now well known as it emerged in the United States...
David Copperfield’s Flying Illusion Revealed or how to protect your invention?
This is our first article intended for inventors and more precisely for public researchers. Traditionally, researchers (including myself) release their work to the rest of the world through publications in scientific journals. However, over the...
PRESANS : Finalist of the Innovation Prize of Paris 2009
PRESANS was the finalist of the Prize of Innovation of the town of Paris. Here is an interview of Albert Meige. Grand Prix de l'Innovation de Paris 2009
The “Meetic of Research” | PRESANS invited by the French Ministry of Research
Today the team of PRESANS was invited to participate to the press conference organized by the French Ministry of Research about the new service that they are launching early 2010: a website to facilitate collaboration between academia and industry. This sounds like a...
The Erosion of the Closed Innovation Paradigm
In our article "The Golden Age of Closed Innovation Closed", we gave a definition of "Closed Innovation", and we explained how and why this type of innovation management had appeared and were necessary conditions of its success. In particular, we explained that A...