Open Innovation Articles

Articles from companies involved in Open Innovation.

InnoGet, a Different Open Innovation Marketplace
By David Ràfols, Founder and CEO,
InnoGet.com is an Open Innovation marketplace, a space for collaboration and connection created for companies and scientists to interact directly and where each user participates by choosing its role – Open Company or Research Partner.

Ideas4All Innovation Agora
By Ana Amelia Serrano, Ideas4All
Today, we talk of crowdsourcing and wikinomics: concepts such as collaborative intelligence or intelligence of the masses are nothing new. What is new is seeing how companies have started to pay attention.

Your Innovation Savior?
By Stephen Benson, CEO, Innovation Exchange
innovationexchange.com (IX) is an online open innovation marketplace which lets people from around the world connect, collaborate and innovate in order to solve innovation challenges. It has Fortune 500 clients and a global social network of innovators who are educated, knowledgeable and networked.

Edison Nation is Mining the Masses for Innovation
By Killy Blinson, Social Media Manager, Edison Nation
Edison Nation is a safe place for idea people to discover opportunity and share "in the trenches" inventing stories from around the world. Since 2008, Edison Nation has brought the voice and conceptual ideas of individuals to major U.S. companies.

The Path to Outcome-Driven Innovation
By Bryan Mahoney, Media & Communications Manager, Imaginatik
Innovation does not often come along on its own. As Hemingway might have said, there is no one rule to innovating. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling through rock and blasting it out.

Smart Innovation at your Own Control
By Sam Kondo Steffensen, CEO & Founder, Million Brains
MillionBrains (MB) is a professional social innovation network that facilitates and enables both internal and open innovation. MB focuses on sustaining a true innovation culture and game-changing mind-set through meaningful collaboration and talent mobilization on a global scale.

Delivering Fresh Student Perspectives to your Company's Challenges
By Pepijn de Visscher, President, Brainrack
Brainrack is a platform where students provide innovative ideas for companies. A company posts a challenge and provides about $4,000 prize money that is awarded to the best ideas.

The Many Facets of Crowdsourcing
By Randy Corke, VP Marketing and Business Development, Chaordix
As you've undoubtedly noticed, online and offline news is filled with stories of crowdsourcing these days. Just about anything that involves any type of contribution from a group of people is now lumped into the "crowdsourcing" category.

Customization: A Unique & Personal Opportunity for Customers and Businesses
By Scott Williams, Marketing Director, Spreadshirt
Customization, more specifically co-creation, is now king on the consumer front, and companies involved in this fast-growing trend provide customizable products to their customers, like t-shirts, shoes, jewelry and even chocolate.

Making External Widely Distributed Knowledge Available
By Christian Hirsig, Founder, COO, Atizo
The principle of open innovation, known today mostly in academic circles, is a concept that describes a revolutionary approach to innovation management, in which businesses maintain an 'open border' to fast track their innovation processes by involving an outside community.

Collaborative innovation WITH / WITHIN ASIA, think ideaken.com
By Jayesh Badani, Founder and CEO, Ideaken
Asia is emerging as both, the marketplace for innovation, and the world's biggest pool of qualified talent. Vastly unknown fact about innovation is that 90% of it is done by the end users, subsequently productised and branded by the enterprises.

Crowdsourcing Creativity � May The Best Idea Win
By Daniel Neville, Brand Co-ordinator & Captain, Idea Bounty
Crowdsourcing is defined by Wikipedia as: "the act of outsourcing a task traditionally assigned to an employee or contractor by throwing it out to a large undefined group of people or community in the form of an open call."

Presans Success Story
By Albert Meige, Founder and President, Presans
The Seeker company, a large European company in the domain of defense had already spent significant amount of money to try and protect electronic devices from getting hit by unfriendly microwave weapons, without success.

The Future of Analytics
By Daniel Gold, Director, Kaggle
Just about every modern organization relies heavily on statistical thinking. Banks predict which loan applicants are likely to default, government treasuries forecast tax revenues, websites make personalized product recommendations, hedge funds crunch data to find trading opportunities and bioinformaticians search for links between genetic markers and disease.

Clickworker.com is the European Market Leader in Paid Crowdsourcing
By Ines Malone, Marketing Manager, Clickworker
Crowdsourcing is the combination of crowd and outsourcing. Unlike traditional outsourcing where work is sent to an outside company, here projects are sent out to be completed by the manpower and collective intelligence of a large number of internet users.

Managing and Organizing Open Innovation
By Prof. dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke, Chairman, Exnovate
Open innovation, collaborative innovation or user innovation... they became buzzwords demonstrating how companies are increasingly innovating with different types of external partners.

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