Open Innovation Requires Collaborative Culture

The director of the Colworth Science Park in the UK discusses the role that collaboration has in creating an environment of innovation. In this campus, academia, corporations, and experts are integrated and focus on the processes that enable ideas to be commercialized. ...

... "We believe that science is a contact sport, so we must develop the right facilities for researchers to interact on a formal and informal basis to create an environment where collaboration and networking are part of the campus culture. " ...

Via Business Weekly: Sally Ann Forsyth

The Networked Organization

Future models of design, manufacturing, and distribution are considered and mapped, such as the concept of a networked organization that leverages outside-in perspectives. ...

... "Seeking an outside-in perspective on internal challenges may require long-held processes to be rethought, from the design cycle to R&D budgets to intellectual property strategies. Once open to the idea of a networked organization, it's relatively easy to identify and engage with external networks of exceptional people through community R&D platforms such as Instructables, InnoCentive, and NineSigma. " ...

Via Institute for the Future: Future of Making is Mapped (PDF)