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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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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