Open Innovation
SUCCESS STORIES

Open innovation success stories from a broad range of companies, and a diverse range of open innovation intermediaries.

	NASA uses Open Innovation Contest to develop Moonraker Paul's Robotics, United States If humans are ever going to live on the moon or indeed if we are to harness some of its natural resources we’re going to need the tools to be able to dig up and dump thousands of tones of lunar soil...
	Dye Sensitized Thin Film Solar Cells G24 Innovations, United Kingdom It is a sobering thought; there are currently 1.7 billion people around the world without electricity. The problem is at its most acute in Sub-Saharan Africa where more than five hundred million peop...
	Open Innovation: Astronaut Glove Peter Homer, United States Out in the cold depths of space an astronaut’s glove can swell up like a balloon. It becomes stiff, stubborn and rigid, making the handling and manipulation of objects extremely onerous. It is a pr...
	Open Innovation: Glycerin for Art Restoration Drew Buschhorn, United States Cyclododecane is a wax-like organic compound that was used by art conservationists as a temporary sealant for weak and fragile objects. It worked well, but it was very expensive and not particularly...
	Open Innovation: Bagel-fuls Gary Schwartzberg, United States When Irene Rosenfeld flew into the top job at Kraft in 2006 she inherited a company that was losing market share, in part due to its lackluster production pipeline. The pressure was on for the big ch...
	Open Innovation: Pringles Print Bakery in Bologna, Italy Procter and Gamble are open innovation giants, with more than 35% of their new ideas coming from outside sources. However, it hasn’t always been this way. Historically P&G relied on internal r...
	Open Innovation: Diabetes Genetics Initiative Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University - USA, Lund University from Sweden, and Novartis from Switzerland, United States Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the insulin that is produced is abnormal. The condition affects more than 170 million people a...
	Open Innovation: Smart Grid Anna Gossen and Niels Gossen from Germany, Sergey Bessonnitsyn from Russia, Germany Cisco, the computer networking giant created a global contest to come up with new ideas and markets that would fuel its future. Business Opportunities Cisco’s I-Prize developed out of the comp...
	Open Innovation: DocumentCloud Eric Umansky, Scott Klein, Aron Pilhofer, Ben Koski, United States First there were newspapers, then television, and now it’s the Internet. The media landscape is moving fast with new technologies forever changing the way that news is delivered and received. News...
	Open Innovation: Netflix Prize BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos It was the three-year computer competition that had mathematicians, statisticians, software engineers and cyber geeks from all over the world working feverishly toward a $1 million prize. The chall...
	Open Innovation: Goldcorp Challenge Fractal Graphics, and Taylor Wall & Associates, Australia Rob McEwen was sitting on a fortune; the trouble was he didn’t know exactly where it was located. It’s the year 2000 and the CEO of Goldcorp Inc., a gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Ca...
	Open Innovation: Exxon Valdez Cleanup John Davis, United States Despite extensive cleanup efforts more than 26 thousand US gallons of oil remained at the bottom of Prince William Sound, nearly twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground. The oil tanker had
	Open Innovation: X-Prize Burt Rutan, United States Ever since Yuri Gagarin whistled round the Earth aboard Vostok 1 and Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind millions of ordinary mortals have entertained the thought, “Gee I wouldn’t mind

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