All Posts Tagged With: "Open Innovation"
‘Making open innovation work’ – a book by Stefan Lindegaard
‘Making open innovation work’ by Stefan Lindegaard, is a practical book on the relevance of open innovation, it explores the open innovation intersection between big and small companies, explains what forms open innovation takes, discusses the benefits, and lists the challenges it poses for companies of different sizes. Want to receive this book for FREE? Motivate why you should get this book in a comment to this post! READ MORE…
7Nov2011 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
Open Innovation (OI), Crowd sourcing and Social Media Workshop
RIIS in collaboration with eMonti STP are hosting an Open Innovation (OI), Crowd sourcing and Social Media Workshop, part of the RIIS Innovation Management Workshop Series 2011. You are cordially invited to attend.
16Sep2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
DURBAN: Invitation to the ESKOM Open Innovation Pilot Project Workshop on 22 July 2011
Invitation to the ‘Co-Innovate with ESKOM Workshop’ in DURBAN: The ESKOM Open Innovation Pilot Project’ on 22 July 2011 at the Durban University of Technology (DUT).
15Jul2011 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
Invitation to ‘Co-innovate with ESKOM Workshop’, 8 July 2011
You are cordially invited to the ‘Co-innovate with ESKOM Workshop’ about the ‘ ESKOM Open Innovation Pilot Project ’. The workshop takes place at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria on 8 July 2011.
1Jul2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
The Eskom Open Innovation Pilot: A first for South Africa
Eskom holding has launched an Open Innovation pilot www.openinnovation.eskom.co.za.
Eskom is collaborating with RIIS (Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability), a local innovation management company, and NineSigma, an American a company that facilitates solving of challenges, through an online global innovation community. NineSigma is represented locally by RIIS.
30Jun2011 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
4th SA Innovation Summit – Final Call for Papers
“Innovation Legends – Ideas to Market” http://www.innovationsummit.co.za The SA Innovation Summit team was overwhelmed by the response to the Call for Papers sent in February. As requested by you, we decided to extend the deadline for submission to 8 April 2011 to provide a chance for more experts to become part of this year’s summit. [...]
28Mar2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Call for policies to help small businesses tap into Open Innovation
Source: Science|Business Michael Kenward Experts attending the Science|Businesses ACES awards at ETH Zurich last month agreed Open Innovation can boost companies of any size, but policy changes are needed to help small businesses get involved In 2010 when GE wanted new ideas to develop the smart electricity distribution grid it embarked on what may have [...]
24Mar2011 | Saine | 3 comments | Continued
Keeping the COFISA Communities Alive Conference
ATTENTION: REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TILL 15 MARCH 2011 Launched in September 2006, The Cooperation Framework on Innovation Systems between Finland and South Africa (COFISA) was a programme launched to enhance the effectiveness of the national system of innovation, and thus enable South Africa to better compete in the increasingly knowledge-intensive global economy. It was [...]
31Jan2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
New Report Helps Businesses Get Help with Open Innovation
Source: www.innovationmanagement.se Companies hoping to collaborate with other firms to create new innovative business opportunities will benefit from a new report by the University of Cambridge. The study tackles question of how to get help with open innovation. PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 2, 2010 | BY: KARIN WALL The approach, known as Open Innovation (OI), is a [...]
9Dec2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
CTN to create ‘entrepreneurship ecosystem’
Source: www.fin24.com Cape Town – The City of Cape Town has partnered with Barcelona to develop a long-term strategy to increase the number of entrepreneurs. Cape Town’s economic director Mansoor Mohamed said on Thursday that the aim was to set up an “entrepreneurship ecosystem” in the city to make life easier for those starting small [...]
21Oct2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Strategic Innovation White Paper
Strategic Innovation is the creation of growth strategies, new product categories, services or business models that change the game and generate significant new value for consumers, customers and the corporation. This paper describes a holistic, multidisciplinary framework that enables organizations to take a strategic approach to innovation. strategic innovation white paper
8Oct2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
Ideation and Open Innovation White Paper
As companies struggle to get on the open innovation bandwagon, they often run into challenges that stymie their efforts. One major cause is failure to adequately prepare the organization for this new approach. By starting internally, and using techniques such as rapid ideation, companies can take a step-wise approach to achieve long term success. Ideation [...]
8Oct2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Open innovation from marginal to mainstream
Corporate Connect has been working with large firms since 2006, investigating how the complex and sometimes difficult relationships between the Goliaths and Davids of the business world can be enhanced. This report pulls together the disparate threads of the emerging open innovation sector. Open Innovation
21Sep2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
NineSigma and The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Partner to Advance Open Innovation across Southern Africa
PRETORIA, Open Innovation Office, The Innovation Hub – July 13, 2010 – NineSigma, the leading provider of open innovation solutions, announced today they are partnering with The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) to deliver open innovation services to companies and government entities throughout the Southern African Development Community . NineSigma and RIIS have [...]
13Jul2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
The Development of a Sustainability Index for a Knowledge Driven Organisation
Businesses and the socio-economic environment in which they operate are unquestionably interconnected. Should the businesses fail to be sustainable, so too would the socio-economic environments become unsustainable. By Audrey Verhaeghe, RIIS Driven by the information economy, the different worlds of human functions on the one hand such as running a business and associated technologies such [...]
18Jun2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
