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Google Search on Open Innovation in France

by Albert Meige | May 7, 2010 | PRESANS

A Google Search on the key words open innovation france (click here to see) yields PRESANS in first position, www.openinnovation.eu in second position and openworldforum.org in third . Open Your Innovation appears only at the 6th position. To be improved!

Obama’s Innovation Strategy is 2.0

by Albert Meige | May 3, 2010 | INNOVATION

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

by Albert Meige | Apr 25, 2010 | 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

by Albert Meige | Apr 18, 2010 | INNOVATION

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

by Albert Meige | Apr 11, 2010 | INNOVATION

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

by Albert Meige | Apr 1, 2010 | INNOVATION

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,...

Even Newton Could be Wrong – The Movie

by Albert Meige | Mar 31, 2010 | PRESANS

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

by Albert Meige | Mar 25, 2010 | INNOVATION

This is a photo of our new ad campaign in US... Photo by Chop Foto 😉

PRESANS Data Center

by Albert Meige | Mar 24, 2010 | PRESANS

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

by Albert Meige | Mar 16, 2010 | INNOVATION

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

by Albert Meige | Mar 8, 2010 | INNOVATION

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

by Albert Meige | Feb 26, 2010 | PRESANS

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

by Albert Meige | Jan 28, 2010 | 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.