The Open Innovation Bridge

Personal networking across organizational and enterprise boundaries enables open innovation to flourish.

Best Open Innovators

Nominate companies that innovate across and beyond traditional enterprise boundaries to the Open 100. ...

... "The Open 100 competition was born out of NESTA’s search for the world’s top 100 open innovation companies. Now we are opening it up to the public to find who the best open innovators really are. " ...

Via OpenBusiness: The Open 100

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

Open Innovation through Contests

Have a problem? Post a bounty. Use an open innovation model to cost-effectively source solutions. ...

... "Organizations have found contests to be a cost-effective method that allows them to tap into the vast intellectual resources outside their walls. " ...

Via San Francisco Chronicle: Drive innovation