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.
Read moreHow 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.
Read moreCollaborative 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.
Read moreLeveraging 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...
Read moreThe 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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