Open Innovation the Chinese way
High-speed rail and semiconductors play a key role in the implementation of China's Belt and Road Initiative, which can be considered a country-level policy of ‘Inside-Out’ open innovation. The authors observe that China’s path to prosperity is very different to...
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Ten ways to design successful corporate startup collaborations
Corporate accelerators provide a unique platform for longterm growth and renewal; offering mutual benefits for corporations and startups, argues Thomas Kohler. He identifies 10 characteristics of successful corporate accelerators.
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Open Innovation between established and emerging bio-pharmaceuticals
In the UK, early stage bio-pharmaceutical companies gain enhanced patenting performance through Open Innovation in contrast to the established companies, which experienced challenges. This is one for the findings by Despoina Filiou and is contrary to the experience in...
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Direct coaching supports SMEs with inbound knowledge transfer from university
Could coaching provide the support that SME's require to improve their innovation activities? In a pilot 10 SMEs were introduced to strategy and technology management tools developed through research and given coaching on applying these tools to their own...
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Reinventing supplier innovation relationships – nine key findings
Nine best practices that have been shown to help members of the Industrial Research Institute bring innovation to market are discussed in the paper Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships.
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