open innovation

Figure 1 The New World Kirkpatrick Model (1994)

Direct coaching supports SMEs with inbound knowledge transfer from university

By rnd-admin
on 30 September, 2020

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...

Reinventing supplier innovation relationships – nine key findings

By rnd-admin
on 18 September, 2020

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.

How Air Products and Chemicals Inc overcame silo mentality

By rnd-admin
on 1 May, 2020

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.

Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know

By rnd-admin
on 1 May, 2020

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.

Leveraging Open Innovation for societal impact – an R&D Management special issue

By rnd-admin
on 3 June, 2019

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...