Some Mercadona products seem to be so loved by a big number of customers that is quite likely to find one acting as prescriber among your friends or acquaintances. Not many people know that this is probably not accidental..
Collaborative & Open innovation implies a context where ideas and knowledge flow across firm and organizations boundaries. In contrast, Intellectual Property Rights have been historically intended to exclude others from using a firm’s ideas and inventions. So both concepts seem irreconcilable at first glance. The paradox does not finish here…
Job-swapping programs help address a challenge that many companies are facing: how to better foster collaboration across different specialties and regions. No so much known are similar programs in which two very different companies swap their employees in order to spur innovation. But this is what Google and P&G did some years ago.
Dell is one of these pioneers actively asking customers for suggestions on how to improve its business on new services or products they can come up with for them. But the story of IdeaStorm is also the story of the commitment needed in Open Innovation in order to succeed…
The morning presentations allowed all the members of Co-Society to get familiar with the Know How, experience and projects of different businesses and organizations from SECPhO (Southern European Cluster in Photonics and Optics). It was time for interactions with experts in Photonics. Voluntary, random or forced…