WSFEquipe15 [Open innovation]

The Business Recorder website reported that Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF) and Indus Motor Company (IMC) have announced the launch of National Innovation Grand Challenge (NICG) 2013-14,with objective to solve challenges of the country in areas including agriculture, energy, rural development, and manufacturing. A year-long `Open Innovation' competition, NIGC encourages Pakistani innovators, youth, students, professionals, entrepreneurs and citizens to innovate for solving country's problems. Article en entier : http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/business-a-economy/146387-nigc-launched-with-toyota-manufacturing-innovation-prize.html

A new study at the European School of Management and Technology Berlin (ESMT) suggests that there are three main practices businesses should undertake to enjoy the benefits of open innovation.

Press Release: Embargoed until 2 February 3 Steps to Successful Open Innovation A new study at the European School of Management and Technology Berlin (ESMT) suggests that there are three main practices businesses should undertake to enjoy the benefits of open innovation.

Let a hundred open innovation flowers blossom. Beyond the traditional one-to-one partnership for coinnovation, whopping initiatives are thriving on a one-to-many scale: it seems we have already entered Spring. - See more at: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2014/02/20/open-innovation-getting-started/#sthash.pcO097nt.dpuf

3. Open Innovation The concept was developed prior to and first published in 2003 (H. W. Chesbrough 2003), and it is based on a multi-agent relationship, where the internal R&D is complemented by a Connect and Develop function (Lee, Olson, and Trimi 2012) to establish and maintain relationship with the external world...

"Cities everywhere experience the conflict of providing more and better services while facing a scenario of decreasing budgets. At the same time information technology promises to reinvent cities, making them more efficient and, yes, smarter."