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Confidentiality and intellectual property issues are poorly addressed
Confidentiality. This is the big issue on the client side Companies using Open Innovation Platforms are mostly concerned by the confidentiality of the information they provide to the intermediary and to the rest of the world. Even if the name of the company remains...
PRESANS partners with Techinnov 2011
On the 10 of February 2011, PRESANS partners with Techinnov 2011. Techinnov, one day, 5 events Techinnov more than a traditional trade fair. It is also an efficient and practical forum for technology and innovation through business, R&D and financial meetings....
X-Search, worldwide expert search engine
On the 18th of January 2011, PRESANS introduces X-Search (x-search.presans.com), worldwide expert search engine. (1) X-Search crawls tens of millions of scientific sources (scientific literature, patents, research center websites etc.). (2) X-Search indexes and...
Matching algorithm and process fail to engage solvers into problem solving
How can we ensure that the Need is broadcast to the right potential experts, without narrowing or broadening too much the broadcast and and do we ensure that we manage to engage these potential experts? Tradeoff between targeting and large broadcast To maximize the...
Registration Yields a Weak Number of Solvers
As an intermediary, how can you constantly find new and interested solvers around the world (i.e. people ready to propose solutions to technological problems)? You need efficient incentives to attract them on your platform, to make them subscribe, to engage them in...
Where Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Platforms Fail
The way Open Innovation crowdsourcing platforms work is rather simple, at least in principle: they help companies to match a problem or a need to an existing solution or to somebody able to solve the problem. Underlying requirements are (i) a large pool of problems,...
Getting help with open innovation
Dr Letizia Mortara, Research Associate at the Institute for Manufacturing’s Centre for Technology Management (University of Cambridge) has just released a new report on Open Innovation. The idea is that the new paradigm of Open Innovation is an innovation itself and...
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...
Interview of Victor Granatstein, who was selected by PRESANS and earned 12 000 € for writing a review on microwaves!
PRESANS was recently chosen by a company in the Defense sector to identify an expert in the world able to write a review on high-power microwaves. PRESANS, has developed a novel approach, leveraging a proprietary Expert Search Engine, to find experts. Victor...
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...
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