December 2009
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List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples -... →
What would one do without sharing and collaborating over the internet. Annelie Andersson
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A really good list of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing initiatives and examples. Worth a look if you try to understand what this new emergent way of organizing value creation really is!
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“Chance favours the prepared mind.”
It all started when natural products industry veterans, Mark Retzloff and Paul Repetto, embarked on a search for organic milk and happened upon a cooperative of small organic dairy farmers in Wisconsin. The cooperative consisted of a handful of visionary dairymen and women who believed in organic values, exactly the ideals Retzloff and Repetto sought.
With the escalating demand for organic milk,...
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Technology transfer to developing countries is an...
Collaboration between private investors and public sector is the only way to introduce low-carbon technology to poor countriesOne of the most contentious topics for discussion at the Copenhagen climate talks will be “technology transfer”, the proposition that climate technologies should be handed from rich nations to poor.
It’s a fine idea in theory. It happened in...
Innovation Convergence →
by Stephen Shapiro I never really thought much about toothpaste. But at the last two innovation conferences where I spoke, toothpaste was one of the hot topics. At the FT Innovate conference in London, Unilever discussed their “Signal White Now” (and other brands) toothpaste. Instead of using harsh bleaches and abrasives, they borrowed an optical-effect technology from their laundry...
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CollabNet Fosters Group Innovation in the 'Cloud'
From corporations to the U.S. Defense Dept., organizations are embracing a new open-source tool that facilitates remote collaboration and communication.
Open-source software pioneer Brian Behlendorf, who sports a ponytail and organized an online music site called SFRaves, is the unlikely architect of a new technology being embraced by the U.S. Defense Dep
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Open Innovation – winning situation when pushing...
Origins Natural Resources Inc. is a subsidiary of The Estée Lauder Companies and a brand with a strong environmental ethic embedded in its mission. After collaborating with integrative health specialist Dr. Andrew Weil, the Origins brand took its “green” commitments to a whole new level. Vice President of Packaging, John Delfausse, for example, headed a project where the partner selection was...
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WatchWhat do you think the impact will be of US President Barack Obama’s decision to attend the summit at the end of the conference rather than the early stages? (via FT.com | FT Energy Source: Live from Copenhagen | Obama at the Copenhagen endgame: Climate experts’ forum
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Crowdsource yourself a beer! →
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them to a group (crowd) of people in the form of an open call.
For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, or as in this case buy a Beer company.
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Get up to speed, leverage your global network
Consumers around the world are more demanding than ever and require organizations to guide them to consume sustainable. Hence corporations and governments will have to forcefully make it ‘easy’ (eco-easy), for consumers to be more green, by restricting the alternatives.
Several companies have successfully challenged their internal processes to minimize the time it takes to bring a strong idea...
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Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer... →
Open collaborative innovation projects thrive on low communication costs.
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Vertical farming →
Chief Oren R. Lyons, Chairman of the Board, Plantagon International will speak on the topic: Road to Action – Where the Action is at Globe Forum, June 4-5th 2009 in Stockholm. To understand more about Chief Oren’s vision read his blogpost The Seven Generations.
Plantagon International will also exhibit its Greenhouse during the Forum, a greenhouse concept that will dramatically change the way...
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Globe Forum →
This is where I spend most of my time
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Innovation – How do you actually create it? →
Innovation might seem random at times, and the truth is that usually one crazy idea connects to another crazy idea but how do you create this process? During this session the speakers Kaj Mickos Mälardalen University, Colin Carlile ESS Scandinavia Secretariat at Lund University, Hans-Jacob Bonnier Bonnier Business Press CEE and Johan Gorecki CEO Globe Forum pointed out a couple of must have for...
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Sharing Sustainability Innovation →
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