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- Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 12:52
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General sites and communities
- 15inno: 'by Stefan Lindegard helps innovation leaders with their challenges and issues through peer-to-peer networking groups and learning sessions.'
- Crowdsourcing.Org: 'Crowdfounding, mass collaboration, it's all on Crowdsourcing.org, the place go to place for authoritative, information-rich content and insights on crowdsourcing.'
- European Open Innovation Forum: 'a new initiative to discover, discuss and share the most effective ways to organise your open innovation pipeline'.
- Exnovate: 'The European network of excellence on open and collaborative information..a place where OI best practices could be exchanges and where a genuine market for OI expertise would be prepared and organised for all stakeholders.
- Innovation Tools. Open Innovation Resource Centre. 'This..resource center contains a valuable collection of the best articles, websitess, books and other resources on this important topic.
- Open Innovation Community: '..an informational resource for thought leaders, consultants, authors, business leaders, academics and others who have a deep interest in open innovation'.
- Open Innovation Strategy & Policy Group: 'unites industrial groups, academia and private users to support policies for Open Innovation at the European Commission'.
- Openinnovators.de: German-language open innovation community and news resource.
- The Big Innovation Centre: 'exists to make the UK a global open innovation hub, to build a world-class innovation eco-system, and re-balance the UK economy.'
Tools, services and platforms
- 12Designer: 'offers clients and creatives an innovative platform for creative competition projects.'
- 100%Open: 'a specialist open innovation agency that helps large organisations create value by innovating with others.'
- Bracket. :'provide businesses with bespoke creative teams for innovation strategy and implementation.
- Brainspot: 'deliver smart solutions to improve your business, such as crowdsourcing, communities, advisory and web developments.
- Creative Barcode: Trust based easy IP fit for open innovation in the digital age. A trust, ethics and etiquette mechanism and framework used to under-pin open innovation challenges both for those running them and those participating in them.
- Creative Commons: 'a non-profit organisation that develops, supports and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximises digital creativity, sharing and innovation.'
- Crowdcube: 'helps startup and growing businesses to raise business finance by letting people invest via our equity crowdfunding platform'.
- Induct: an 'integrated web-based service which supports custom design, measurement, and measurement of the entire open innovation process. Induct integrates Enterprise 2.0 technology and social networking concepts with a flexible and customisable innovation process management framework'.
- InnoCentive: 'is the open innovation and crowdsourcing pioneer that enables organizations to solve their key problems by connecting them to diverse sources of innovation including employees, customers, partners, and the world's largest problem solving market place.'
- Innoget: 'provides a full range of services related to the acquisition, re-evaluation and marketing of technologies and addressing the needs of R&D and innovation.'
- Innovation Bank: 'An innovation & IP trading portal for SME's to Corporates, Creative industries, inventors, funders, professions and academics seeking collaborative partners to do business with, buy, sell, and license IP. Also excellent PR and marketing platform to promote innovation challenges, initiatives and company success stories.
- Innovation Exchange: 'an open innovation marketplace for Global 500 companies and not-for-profit organisations.'
- Kickstarter: 'a funding platform for creative projects...is full of ambitious, innovative and imaginative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of others.'
- NineSigma: 'offers a full array of state-of-the-art products and services that will engage your company with the global information community and enable you to leverage those connections for optimal value through proper organizational and and process alignment.'
- One Billion Minds: an 'online community which includes scientists, professional and student innovators from across 180 universities, 54 areas of study, and 103 countries around the world.'
- OpenIDEO: 'an online platform for creative thinkers.'
- OSSWatch: a free open source advisory service for UK higher and further education institutions.
- Peoplefund.it: 'a new crowdfunding website from the makers of River Cottage, Hugh's Fish Fight and Chicken Out! which brings together individuals with fresh business ideas.'
- Presans: Matches customer needs to a worldwide network of registered experts.
- Quantum Innovation Centre: '..creates a fresh, new forum for both large and small businesses, government and academia in which each can combine their resources in a market-led approach to innovation'.
Examples of corporate sites
- Akzo Nobel Open Space: a site which looks for 'brilliant ideas and solutions'.
- Barclaycard Ring: 'a credit card that is driven by its community of card members
- BASF Future Business: a site which seeks solutions in the areas of energy, electronics and health.
- BMW Group Virtual Innovation Agency: 'an interface between external innovation sources and developers from the BMW Group' .
- Boots Centre For Innovation: 'we help entrepreneurs turn concepts into successful products and reach millions of customers.'
- CloroxConnects: A site which seeks to source ideas from customers, partners and staff.
- first direct lab: 'a place where you can view new ideas and test-drive brand new first direct innovations before we release them..'
- General Mills G-Win: Site which seeks out ideas in the categories of products, packaging, processes, ingredients, technologies and digital.
- Glaxo Smithkline. Innovation at GSK: 'Open innovation is our process for linking your ideas or innovative technology with GSK R&D and Commercial team members responsible to grow our global brands.'
- Intuit Network: 'is the place to work together on new ideas. Find out what we're looking for in our Challenges or tell us via Brainstorm if you have a novel idea that we can develop together.'
- Ideas Project: 'is an online community for everyone from around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and developers around innovation powered by Nokia.
- Lego Cussoo: 'Create a project, share your product concept, and see what other people think'.
- Local Motors: A community with designs and develops cars.
- Open Xerox 'a web portal that hosts technology prototypes from the Xerox R&D labs, making them accessible to the external user community well before the launch of a product offering.'
- Procter & Gamble, P&G Connect & Develop: 'our version of open innovation, the practice of accessing externally developed intellectual property and allowing your internally-developed assets and know-how to be used by others.'
- Quirky: Open innovation product development site.
- Reckitt Benckiser: RB Idealink: 'If you have a new technology product that's close to market, or you want to license one of our brands, you have come to the right place'.
- SAP Community Network: 'is SAP's professional network. It provides trusted connections to our dynamic community of SAP customers, partners, employees and experts.'
- Tate & Lyle: 'We are a leading global provider of three main types of speciality food ingredients. if you have a new product or technology in one or more of these areas - or a new food technology altogether - we would love to hear from you'.
- Unilever: 'Smart collaboration between us and our partners allows us to leverage a greater mix of technologies and speed up time to market to deliver value non of us could achieve on our own.'
- VJAM: 'is all about co-invention with Virgin Atlantic's customers and it blends topics that our customers are interested in with opportunities that make travel more social.'
Examples of public services and government sites
- Challenge.gov: US Government challenge site
- GenIUS York: City of York challenge and engagement initiative.
- NHS Hack Days: 'are weekend events that bring together doctors, nurses, designers, developers and other 'geeks who love the NHS' to create disruptive solutions to problems in the health space'.
Reports and papers
- Open Innovation and Public Policy in Europe. Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeke. Esade Business School, Science Business Innovation Board. 2011.
- The Venture Crowd; Crowdfunding Equity Investment into Business. Nesta 2012.
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