Open Innovation

Henry Chesbrough, leading scholar of ‘open innovation’, to form European Innovation Forum to improve the management of innovation in Europe. In collaboration with ESADE Business School and Science|Business Innovation Board.

The academic ‘father’ of open innovation is launching a European forum for it, in collaboration with the Science|Business Innovation Board. Henry Chesbrough discusses the European challenges.

Experts attending the Science|Businesses ACES awards at ETH Zurich last month agreed Open Innovation can boost companies of any size, but policy changes are needed to help small businesses get involved

Ten leading organisations from the UK higher education and research sector have joined forces to push for Open Access to research papers.

GE is joining four US VCs in putting up $200M for open innovation in electricity generation, transmission and use, to deliver the environmental promise of smart electricity grids.

AstraZeneca and the Medicines for Malaria Venture have announced a collaboration to identify novel candidate drugs for the treatment of malaria.

Bell Labs is to expand its research in Ireland. The expansion, which will see 75 more researchers employed at the labs, will provide more opportunities for collaboration.

France Télécom–Orange and Alcatel-Lucent have joined forces to promote open innovation in the Brittany and Loire regions.