Corporate Connect
Corporate Connect is exploring ways that corporates, SMEs and individuals can collaborate and work more openly to generate new opportunities.
What makes us tick...
- exploring how to overcome the difficulties organisations face when searching for the right collaborative partners;
- learning about the technical and cultural barriers that prevent collaborations from flourishing; and
- discovering how different frameworks and tools can be used to produce successful outcomes.
V-JAM
V-JAM is investigating how a process of managed user-led open innovation can benefit corporate entities, such as Virgin Atlantic.
Open Ventures Challenge
The Open Venture Challenge will create multimillion pound ventures to help fund Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work.
P&G Corporate Open Innovation Challenge
The Procter & Gamble Open Innovation Challenge seeks to harness the potential of design companies to develop the next generation of products and services for P&G.
Corporate Connections
Corporate Connections is bringing together a diverse group of companies to encourage innovative thinking and develop shared opportunities, through a series of collaborative workshops.
Open Alchemy
Open Alchemy is encouraging firms to seek opportunities outside their traditional, internal innovation streams.
Further reading:
- Open Innovation in Action, by Andre Gaule
- Innovation Happens Elsewhere, by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel
- Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology, by Henry William Chesbrough
- Corporate Open Innovation - if it's so good, why isn't everyone doing it? By David Simoes-Brown