General Mills OpenInnovation Beyond our walls, innovators like you might have just what we need to bring healthy and flavorful food to the world. At General Mills, we believe that there is a great opportunity for us to enhance and accelerate our innovation efforts by teaming up with world-class innovators from outside of the company. To facilitate this effort, we created the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN) to actively seek partners who can help us deliver breakthrough innovation in the following categories: Products - New products that fit within a General Mills brand or solve a customer need. Packaging- Novel packaging technologies or new, consumer-friendly formats. Processes - Improvements to quality, efficiency and profitability. Ingredients - New ingredients to enhance taste, texture, quality or health benefits. Technologies- Enabling food technologies. Digital- Emerging digital marketing technologies.
Crowdsourcing Innovation: Q&A with Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentiv In recent years, corporations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest research problems and reduce runaway costs of R&D. Now non-profits are beginning to see prize-based innovation as a strategy for humanitarian causes too, such as developing medicines to fight tuberculosis in the developing world, cleaning up oil spills or designing solar technologies for villages in rural India and Africa. InnoCentive is the premier open innovation marketplace in the world, where corporations and non-profits post their toughest research problems and a global network of 160,000 solvers takes a crack at solving them for cash rewards. Non-profit challenges have grown to about 20 percent of the InnoCentive portfolio, up from virtually none only two years ago. --Is InnoCentive doing more in the non-profit space? We’re doing more in the non-profit space than ever. --People often talk about crowdsourcing as a way to tap technical expertise around the world. That’s absolutely the case.
SNCF - Opinions & Débats Scientists connected with open companies – open innovation innoget is a marketplace of technology offers and requests. A global community comprised of thousands of professionals who have free access to technology requests and offers posted by international organizations convinced of the need to collaborate with external partners and actively seek to invest in joint development, technology acquisition, licensing or any other type of collaboration In an open innovation environment, innovation becomes yet another element at the service of companies which can be bought, sold or acquired stemming from the ideas, products and technologies of other organisations. innoget is conceived with the clear aim of helping our clients in acquiring this innovation and revaluing their most innovative technologies innoget was established in 2007 from the integration of a group of independent professionals of recognized standing and experience in the fields of innovation management and technology transfer Contact details News News related to innoget : view... Newsletter
FlexTech About the FlexTech Alliance The FlexTech Alliance is the only organization headquartered in North America exclusively devoted to fostering the growth, profitability and success of the electronic display and flexible, printed electronics supply chain. Leveraging its rich history in promoting the display industry as the U.S. Display Consortium, the FlexTech Alliance offers expanded collaboration between and among industry, academia, and research organizations for advancing displays and flexible, printed electronics from R&D to commercialization. The FlexTech Alliance, which is based in San Jose, Calif. and has regional chapters operating throughout North America, will help foster development of the supply chain required to support a world-class, manufacturing capability for displays and flexible, printed electronics in this key region. Mission
Why Big Companies Need Small Companies in their Open Innovation Ecosystem Corporations that are taking the lead in open innovation are hoping to gain an advantage over their competitors as they will get access to a more diverse inflow of opportunities, which can lead to faster and better innovation. Specifically, as they look toward smaller companies to bring within the orbit of their open innovation program, corporations understand that small companies bring these advantages to the table: • Small companies often are at the leading edge of breakthrough or disruptive innovation. Breakthrough innovation – that is, innovation with potential to be a real game changer – can be exceedingly hard to achieve in a large, bureaucratic organization where people work in silos, have their own turf to protect and are wedded to the status quo. In contrast, entrepreneurial companies are often founded based on a breakthrough idea that the founders are passionate about and deeply committed to. What other benefits would you add to this? inShare70
User Innovation and Firm Boundaries: Organizing for Innovation b These pages are about the symposium presentation held during the Academy of Management 2008 meeting in Anaheim. Participants The session was organized by Marcel Bogers (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Presenting their individual papers were Allan Afuah (University of Michigan), Lars Bo Jeppesen (Copenhagen Business School), Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University & Eindhoven University of Technology) and Joel West (San José State University). These papers were discussed by Frank Piller (RWTH Aachen University) and Christopher Tucci (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Schedule Slides are being posted as they are made available by the speakers. Abstract Despite increasing evidence and recognition of users as innovators, our understanding of the role of users in the innovation process is incomplete.
Winner of Starbucks' Coffee Cup Challenge Isn't a Coffee Cup | F If you could earn free lattes by helping save the environment, why wouldn't you? That’s the philosophy behind Karma Cup, the winner of the Betacup Challenge announced today. Betacup Challenge is an open design competition partly sponsored by Starbucks with a mission to reduce the waste from to-go paper coffee cups. Having beat out over 430 entries, Karma Cup will receive $10,000. The Karma plan: A chalkboard at the coffee shop will chart each person who uses a reusable mug. The tenth person to order a drink with a reusable cup will receive his or her drink free. “Our paper cups really represent our icon and unfortunately they also represent one of our greatest environmental liabilities in our customers’ eyes,” Jim Hanna, Starbucks’s director of environmental impact, said at the announcement. Every year, 58 billion paper cups are thrown away, 20 million trees are cut down to manufacture these cups and 12 billion gallons of water are used in the manufacturing process.
Activa tu cuenta | CoCreable La misión de CoCreable es ofrecer un servicio a la sociedad para fomentar y promover la filosofía y metodologías de co-creación -procesos creativos colectivos- contribuyendo de esta forma a hacer una sociedad mejor, más democrática, participativa y creativa tanto para el beneficio propio como para el beneficio colectivo. Las bases que guian nuestro proyecto son: Co-creación Co-Crear significa crear con otras personas. Co-creación al servicio del bien común CoCreable creemos que la creatividad colectiva puede estar al servicio de un bien común creando y compartiendo soluciones entre todos y para todos. Retos, retos, retos En la vida nos encontramos retos que solventar a diario. Creatividad, Creatividad, Creatividad En CoCreable creemos en una creatividad positiva que permita compartir ideas y co-crear entre todos un mundo mejor.
Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing The Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM) was established through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Nano-scale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC) program in 2002. With the vision of a new nanotechnology manufacturing paradigm combining fundamental scientific research with industrial outlook, SINAM has developed its leadership in nanomanufacturing through the collective effort of its exceptional interdisciplinary team of academic and industrial researchers from seven institutions during our Phase I operation. In an environment dedicated to multi-disciplinary and collaborative science, in addition to a program of education for the next generation of pioneers, SINAM creates the opportunities for industrial quantum-leaps in nanotechnology. SINAM Organization Chart