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The State of Science, Technology and Innovation

Jan-13-11 By Aminda
A recent study published by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reviews key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) in OECD countries and a number of major emerging economies. Using the latest available data and indicators, the study looks at the role STI will play in recovery from the global economic crisis. While OECD countries show divergent practices, overall, indicators show that investment in R&D has slowed in these countries. For example:

The Future of Open Innovation

Jan-11-11 By Aminda
2010 was the year that the call of innovation was sounded loud; a key focus for business leaders looking to emerge from recession. The call was answered as creative and business-savvy entrepreneurs are innovating — innovating in response to tomorrow’s, increasingly confident consumer.

Today, almost every large technology company, and a growing number of small ones, have embraced OI as a key strategy. It is now ubiquitous, said consultants, yet2.com. Now, they say, it’s time for OI to be embraced by business units and not just staff functions.

Will Crowdsourcing Continue to Evolve in 2011?

Jan-10-11 By Aminda
2010 may be considered the year crowdsourcing really came into its own, even meriting a nomination for Word of the Year.
Since crowdsourcing itself is no longer new and exciting, in 2011 brands will have to figure out ways to leverage crowdsourcing in product design, while maintaining a strong brand identity, according to the NextWeb blog. What other changes are in store for the practice of crowdsourcing in 2011?

Innovating Services

Jan-06-11 By Aminda
The MIT Sloan Management Review has recently published an article by innovation pioneer Henry Chesbrough that today’s innovators will not want to miss. Called “Bringing Open Innovation to Services," the article challenges all business leaders — even those who deal with products — to think of their business as a service provider.  With services comprising more than 70% of aggregate gross domestic product and employment in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, it's time for a shift in vision.

Innovating Management

Jan-03-11 By Aminda
A recent post outlined Henry Chesbrough’s call to businesses to refocus from strictly innovating products to seeing themselves as a service provider — including the customer in the process of creation. Chesbrough isn’t the only one calling business leaders towards to look outside of R&D processes when it comes to innovation. Here are examples of organization who are sounding the call for the larger business organization to embrace innovation.

Mapquest endeavors to ‘out-open’ Google

Dec-22-10 By Aminda
This week AOL subsidiary MapQuest is launching U.S. online maps edited by the people, for the people. A separate website allows users to chime in with corrections and additions to MapQuest's U.S. maps and label previously unmarked destinations like specific rides at Disneyland or swing sets at their neighborhood parks. The current version of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been created by GPS data uploaded by thousands of users along with government data.

Call to Participate in Open Innovation Mapping Project

Dec-21-10 By Aminda
French consulting firm Bluenove recently launched an open innovation map, a platform designed to visualize key players in the field of Open Innovation as well as new creative ecosystems and multi-industry companies on a global scale.
The project aims to consolidate OI players and highlight their projects and initiatives. The UGC (User-Generated Content) feature enables users to join OIM database by subscribing to the project, and then create a network with other participants. OIM database is presented in two views: the map geolocating key players in open innovation (startups, developers, experts, clusters, public/private research laboratories etc.) and the catalog including detailed information about each mapped player.

The Innovation Managers Toolkit – Best Books

Dec-16-10 By Aminda
Is your family looking for perfect gift to get you?  Are you in need of some distraction on an upcoming holiday flight?  Maybe you’re developing your 2011 reading list. Look no further. An unscientific study of booksellers and innovation blogs has provided the following list of five bestselling innovation books. Some are new, some are classics, all are inspiring. Your own comments and suggestions are welcome.

 
Happy reading!




 



 

Fujitsu Launches Open Innovation Service

Dec-09-10 By Aminda
Fujitsu is inviting customers, partners and academic institutions to join its worldwide network of R&D facilities to develop new solutions. Use of the service isn’t limited to Fijitsu-specific problems but is open to all. The announcement from the global provider of ICT-based business solutions says:
What this means for you will depend entirely on the needs of your business. Perhaps you have a major, ongoing business challenge but don’t have the resources to tackle it alone, perhaps you’ve solved a problem with an innovative solution and want to exploit this solution further or maybe you just want a clearer understanding of the road ahead and how changes in technological capabilities and how those capabilities are delivered might impact your business, your suppliers and partners, and your customers.

Cultural Shift to Openness

Dec-07-10 By Aminda
A notable study is being launched out of  Spain’s National Research Council. Titled, “The Cultural Economy of Innovation”, the three-year research project aims to study from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective the current emergence of openness as a figure of, and configurative framework for, the socio-economic structure of our contemporary. It will study the cultural economy of openness as a new sociological paradigm: What contexts and processes legitimate and enable the circulation of openness as a cultural category across organisations, institutions and communities?