How Air Products and Chemicals Inc overcame silo mentality
Air Products’ approach to open innovation was to identifying and prioritising the key technical needs and use a toolbox of approaches to accelerate solutions,however the move from inhouse to open innovation was not without its challenges.
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Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know
Like so many meetings, the IfM’s Open Innovation Forum's March workshop, was hastily reconvened into a virtual event due to the coronavirus crisis. Co-organiser Dominic Oughton, discusses some of the learning points.
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Leveraging Open Innovation for societal impact – an R&D Management special issue
How could open innovation (OI) collaborative practices provide a way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – eradication of disease? Reduction of carbon emissions? Creation of more sustainable products and services? A special issue of R&D Management...
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The problem of plastic: Open Innovation Forum tackles sustainable packaging
The OI Forum tackled the packaging challenge using a structured ‘Design Thinking’ approach to discover new solutions
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How inbound open innovation helps SMEs learn and improve: knowledge transfer from university to industry through direct coaching
This paper explores how coaching using University generated knowledge can be seen as a form of inbound organizational innovation that enables SMEs to improve their innovation activities.
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Promoting Innovation through Living Labs
Living labs offer a platform for companies to engage in open innovation activities with customers, to collect vital ideas, useful feedback, valuable user experiences, and new information,
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