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Hidden Champions: Small companies ride to the top in open innovation networks

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 9 January, 2018

In his book Managing Open Innovation in SMEs, (Cambridge University Press, June 2017), Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke considers bike-part manufacturer Curana’s success and highlights how small companies are embracing the global trend toward Open Innovation through collaborating with external partners...

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Open Innovation at Heineken

Open Innovation at Heineken

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 12 December, 2017

Heineken has been experimenting with different models for facilitating ideation with external partners, culminating in the launch of its Innovators Brewhouse 2.0, which aims to balance creativity with finding solutions to real world needs.

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Stretch

“Stretch”: A cracking recipe for plant performance

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 27 June, 2017

“Stretch” is the mechanism by which established capital equipment continues to improve in terms of process and product technology and make higher output and new products long after they are built.

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Agile project management in R&D

Agile project management in R&D

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 31 August, 2016

In the Agile approach a team works together in a scrum sharing tasks in an informal way to deliver a defined output in a relatively short time a sprint.

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Tools for managing early-stage business model innovation

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 8 April, 2016

Lockheed Martin have used a new two-stage approach to solicit and evaluate thousands of ideas from their employees, improving on traditional financial methods used to evaluate innovation.

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Exploiting the Hydrogen Economy

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 13 January, 2016

The term “Hydrogen Economy” refers to a proposed system of delivering energy using hydrogen as thermal and/or electrochemical fuel. It will become sustainable when electricity generated from renewable energy sources is stored as hydrogen. The three key elements will...

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