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Ils s'appellent Stephen, Jess ou Gareth. Ils sont Britanniques et journalistes, et passent leur journée à rédiger des articles en anglais pour un public international. Seule différence avec leurs confrères de Londres : en fin de journée, ces quatorze journalistes quittent leur salle de rédaction pour retrouver l'ambiance méditerranéenne de Montpellier.

Ils s'appellent Stephen, Jess ou Gareth. Ils sont Britanniques et journalistes, et passent leur journée à rédiger des articles en anglais pour un public international. Seule différence avec leurs confrères de Londres : en fin de journée, ces quatorze journalistes quittent leur salle de rédaction pour retrouver l'ambiance méditerranéenne de Montpellier.

La première ressource aide les leaders à motiver l'innovation au bénéfice de l'entreprise

Harvard Business Publishing lance le centre de l'innovation Harvard Business Publishing, première source en matière de pratiques, de programmes et de contenus de management, a aujourd'hui présenté son Centre de l'innovation, une collection complète de ressources visant à offrir aux leaders des entreprises de nouvelles stratégies, des concepts efficaces et des tactiques éprouvées pour leur permettre d'encourager les pratiques en matière d'innovation au sein de leurs organisations.

xperts leaders en innovation Le centre de l'innovation explique aux managers et aux leaders comment maitriser les aspects clés de l'innovation, de la stratégie au management, en passant par le processus. D'éminents experts incluant notamment Scott Anthony, Clay Christensen, Gary Hamel, Dorothy Leonard, et Stefan Thomke, partagent leurs idées par le biais de vidéos, d'articles, de modules d'apprentissage, de séminaires universitaires, d'alimentation en nouvelles Usenet et d'autres ressources de grande qualité d'Harvard Business Publishing. "Une innovation réussie se traduit par d'excellents retours en termes de valeur durable. Pourtant, de nombreuses entreprises hésitent lourdement à faire des efforts pour développer de nouveaux produits, services et manières de faire des affaires.," a déclaré Peter McAteer, directeur et vice-président de la division d'apprentissage d'entreprise d'Harvard Business Publishing. "Les meilleurs innovateurs profitent d'une augmentation des revenus et des parts de marchés, attirent les meilleurs talents, génèrent des retours élevés pour leurs actionnaires et établissent des marques puissantes. A l'ère d'une concurrence de plus en plus rude, aucune entreprise ne peut se permettre de manquer de tels avantages." En utilisant le Centre de l'innovation, les managers apprendront à : Développer une solide stratégie d'innovation Motiver et gérer les forces créatives qui alimentent les innovations réussies Etablir un processus méthodique pour la mise en oeuvre d'une stratégie d'innovation

Lego’s participative army marches on .. by Michel Bauwens

One of the highlights was Mark Hansen, director of Business Development at Lego, who has been focusing his life’s work on spurring co-creation processes between Lego as a corporate community and the legions of fans that are normally operating independently of the company.

Mark’s instinct go into the opposite direction of learning to tap further and further into it, and to develop mutually beneficial relationships.

07 février 2008 - Discours d'Hervé Novelli : conférence de presse du 7 février 2008 - Le commerce extérieur de la France en 2007 et ses défis

Pour faire croître nos entreprises, nous avons : - levé les freins à leur développement : simplification, dématérialisation, suppression des effets de seuils, rescrit fiscal et social. - amélioré la structure financière des entreprises : réduction des délais de paiement, suivi des encours PME des banques, réduction d’ISF pour l’investissement dans les PME, développement des business-angels - obtenu la mise en place d’un Small Business Act européen, annoncée par M. Barroso en décembre dernier.

3e partie : Diagnostic des faiblesses structurelles dont souffrent nos entreprises

Business in Germany: Innovative – but little experimentation

The participating multinational companies ranked Germany as the third most innovative location in the world – beaten only by the US and China

These positive developments cannot mask the fact, however, that there is still a lack of bold entrepreneurs in Germany.

But what we want to focus on here are VC funded web 2.0 ventures that got to profitability as standalone ventures.

The point here is, what other Web 2.0 companies have been funded by VC and have reached profitability? Surely there must be some more? Did all the 2003/2004 era Series A funded ventures either exit or fail? Or are some on the cusp of profitability, with enough investor cash to get them there? Even with revenue forecasts that may need to be to brought down as a result of a slowing economy?

L'UE en quête d'une position commune sur le soutien aux poles de compétitivité

«On compte environ 2000 clusters en Europe, mais seulement 10 % d’entre eux sont de taille mondiale»

L’UE peine à faire émerger des clusters de dimension mondiale en mesure de rivaliser avec les pôles de compétitivité américains ou japonais.

La Fête des Entreprises, "J'aime ma boite". Dans le cadre des Journées de l'Entrepreneur : les salariés célèbrent, dès le premier jour la Fête des Entreprises, rappelant leur attachement à l'entreprise qui les emploie dans sa dimension professionnelle, sociale et humaine. (Dans 150 000 entreprises françaises, en système ouvert).

Lancement de la semaine du bénévolat économique (organisée dans le cadre de l'Année du bénévolat économique de France Initiative. (241 plateformes locales).www.france-initiative.fr

Lancement de la semaine Ecole Entreprise le lundi 17 novembre : initiative conjointe du MEDEF et du ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, cette opération a déjà sensibilisé près de 800.000 élèves au monde de l'entreprise depuis sa création en 2000. Cette année, en association avec l'association Entreprendre pour Apprendre, le Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants (CJD) et l'association Jeunesse et Entreprise (AJE), plus de 2000 rencontres entrepreneurs, professeurs, élèves, sont prévues.

The fundamental aim of the programme is to create an easily accessible and sustainable European Research & Development (R&D) support mechanism for businesses as well as encouraging them to create new economic activities. Also as part of the programme, enterprises will be assisted in promoting their technological and business development and internationalisation. The Eurostars Joint Programme does not intend to supplant existing national or EU programmes which support R&D performing SMEs in their innovation process. Instead, it is meant to complement them and achieve synergies with the relevant national research and innovation programmes. In so doing it will help realise the European research Area (ERA).

its annual survey on the growth and impact of collaborative Internet applications

Internet application usage is at 97%, up from 85% in 2007 73% of IT managers report at least one security incident as a result of Internet application usage 37% of companies report an instance of non-compliance; 27% report accidental data leakage Largest companies project $125K monthly to remediate Internet usage related security, compliance and data leakage issues

51% of end users access social media sites at least once per day 79% of employees use social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, You Tube) at work for business reasons

la génération des « digital natives » recherche un

sens, peu numérique celui-là, à son engagement dans l'entreprise.

Et à la réflexion, rares sont les sociétés qui intègrent dans l'ADN de leur projet fondateur ou de leur stratégie, des valeurs spontanément mobilisatrices.

Tuning innovation policy to the characteristics of industries Innovation policy tools fit more or less the needs of industries. We try to understand which kind of industry is more impacted by which tool, therefore allowing a better tuning of the policy mix to suit the characteristics of targeted industries and the national priorities. Management of innovation We would like to contribute to fill the gap between the needs of companies wanting to improve the efficiency of their innovation system and academic research where most teams pursue a deep understanding of very focused issues. We organize (together with colleagues of Ecole polytechnique and universities of Paris) many workshops where professionals and scholars meet to discuss real practices. We focus on organizing ‘open innovation’ relying on building networks in order to combine and integrate the best technologies or to realize the potential of a technology, on a better understanding the behavior, expectations and latent needs of users, on the design of new business models.

Indeed, Songdo IBD was recently named a winner of the first annual Sustainable Cities Award from the Urban Land Institute, the only project in Asia so honored. The Sustainable Cities Award honors global examples of sustainable land use that have demonstrated financial viability, a capacity to inspire and an ability to be replicated. With more than 120 buildings registered for LEED certification, Songdo IBD also is one of the world's most ambitious LEED developments. Songdo IBD's extensive use of green materials, systems and planning principles includes such innovations as the following, which are being detailed this week for the first time: -- Water-cooled central air conditioning units were developed by Carrier and LG specifically for Songdo IBD, the first time such systems will be used in Korea. These custom-engineered units will provide a 20% energy savings over industry standard air-cooled units and will now be marketed

The New Growth Engines Initiative reported their plan to the president of Korea, Lee Myung-bak on Sept. 22.

the initiative has selected 22 projects in six areas - energy and environment, transportation systems, new information technology, new integrated industries, bio-industry and knowledge-based services.

However, the growth of the Korean economy has been relatively slow during the last decade because it is facing strong international challenges. Industry leaders are struggling to develop the new "Blue Ocean" in the years to come. Unemployment among the younger generation is serious, and the proportion of retirees has become bigger. Another challenge is the global warming and energy shortage problem.

TO SEE the geography of the technology industry, crack open an Apple iPhone. Although the firm that sells it is American, it provides none of the physical innards. The components are almost entirely Asian: the screen is mostly from Japan, the flash memory from South Korea, and it was assembled in China. Apple’s contribution is the design and software—and, importantly, integrating the innovations of others.

The most impressive growth has been in South Korea. In 2007 Samsung spent more on R&D than IBM. The company has jumped to second place in the number of patents granted by America’s patent office (just behind IBM); a decade earlier it was not even in the top ten. South Korean firms spend more on R&D as a percentage of sales (6.5%) than European and Japanese firms (around 5%), and are catching up with American ones (about 8%). South Korea now has more high-tech researchers than Britain and Germany.

The starkest shifts are in computer services and manufacturing, where the roles of America and East Asia have diverged dramatically. The amount that American firms spend on research in computer services as much as trebled over the past decade. Japanese and South Korean firms, meanwhile, spend hardly anything developing services, and prefer to concentrate on more tangible, if less lucrative, hardware.