open innovation

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...

The problem of plastic: Open Innovation Forum tackles sustainable packaging

By rnd-admin
on 29 November, 2018

The OI Forum tackled the packaging challenge using a structured ‘Design Thinking’ approach to discover new solutions

Figure 1 The New World Kirkpatrick Model (1994)

How inbound open innovation helps SMEs learn and improve: knowledge transfer from university to industry through direct coaching

By rnd-admin
on 25 September, 2018

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.

Promoting Innovation through Living Labs

By rnd-admin
on 26 July, 2018

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,

What skills do we need for Open Innovation?

By rnd-admin
on 31 May, 2018

To be successful an OI team needs around forty specific skills covering the four stages of OI – Want, Find, Get, Manage – these skills fall into four categories: introspective, extrospective, interactive and technical.