Open Innovation
From MilcordWiki
Open Innovation is the corporate development of lower-cost, higher-quality ideas from the best sources in the world by collaborating with outsiders—including customers, vendors and even competitors. Milcord practices open innovation by collaborating with university research labs, systems integrators, and venture backed technology startup companies to develop solutions for various Federal agencies.
.mil
Open innovation applications in the military has come a long way since the launch of the U.S. intelligence agencies' internal wiki Intellipedia in 2005. Collaborative applications now span several DoD components ...
- ONR's Office of Innovation will use its Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) platform as a means to bring together players to reduce the U.S. Navy's heavy reliance on a finite, expensive and unreliable supply of fossil fuels.
- Apps for the Army is a rapid-acquisition process for software applications -- similar to the process employed for applications for both the iPhone and Android app stores.
- Aristotle, a Web 2.0 social site with social networking features deployed across AFRL sites, provides situational awareness on people, projects, and topics in order to enable SME’s to work across technical boundaries, and provide management with better technical and programmatic situational awareness.
- more military initiatives ...
.gov
Collaborative applications now span several government agencies spurred by crowdsourcing applications that tap into the wisdom of citizenry ...
- Better Buy Project is a GSA project aimed at using collaboration and social media to make the federal acquisition process more efficient and effective.
- Diplopedia, the Encyclopedia of the United States Department of State, captures tradecraft pertaining to diplomacy, international relations, and Department of State.
- Bureaupedia is an FBI internal wiki that captures senior FBI agent knowledge.
- more government initiatives ...
.org
The multi-organizational nature of solutions required for social problems fit naturally to the open innovation model.
- X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit organization addresses the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development.
- UN Global Pulse is a United Nations initiative to close the information gap between the onset of a global crisis and the availability of actionable information to protect vulnerable populations.
- HealthMap , started at the Children's Hospital Boston in 2006, uses online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.
- Crisis Mappers is a humanitarian technology network for early warning for rapid response to complex humanitarian emergencies.
.edu
Higher education is warming up to collaborative educational applications as exemplified by some of the recent initiatives:
- Iowa Electronic Marketplace, operated by University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, is an online futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies' earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns.
- All Our Ideas is an open source website which allows groups all over the world to create and deploy wiki surveys, and visualize results.
- Citizendium is an encyclopedia project promoting expert-approved articles. The scalability of the model is yet to be proven as so far only 1% of the articles are approved. The site encourages university students work on wiki articles as part of their coursework assignments.
- ResearchGATE is a collaboration site for scientific researchers to enable file-sharing, publication database sharing, forums, methodology discussions, groups etc.
- more education initiatives ...
.com
- Open Compute Project is a Facebook initiative to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost by opening up hardware innovation.
- IBM Jam is a series of online brainstorming sessions for problem solving targeting business and social problems.
- GreenXChange is a consortium launched by Nike and others dedicated to sharing patents and ideas that help companies reduce their carbon footprint.
- more commercial initiatives ...
software
- Ushahidi is an open source platform for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping of international political events.
- Brightidea is a software platform that allows businesses to monitor the social process of innovation.
- spigit is a platform that enables organizations to tap into the collective intelligence of employees, customers, partners and fans to help tackle business objectives by incorporating game mechanics.
- Chaordix is a managed services platform for crowdsourcing.
- Consensus Point Huunu prediction market software enables an enterprise to tap into the knowledge of their community in order to accelerate innovation and decision-making.
- IdeaScale enables an organization to build key relationships with its stakeholders by bringing the power of My Starbucks Idea type interaction to any organization.
- more open innovation software ...
innovation marketplace
- 99 designs is a crowdsourcing marketplace for graphics design.
- Opinno is an open innovation network of entrepreneurs, investors, and ideas.
- TopCoder provides an outsourcing community for software development.
- more open innovation companies ...
interviews
- Federal News Radio interview with Amanda Eamich Director of Strategic Communication and New Media, Food Safety and Inspection Service at the Agriculture Department discussing the use of Web 2.0 at the Agriculture Department. Follow Food Safety on Twitter.
- Federal News Radio interview with Judy Estrin author of Closing the Innovation Gap
- BusinessWeek interview with NineSigma
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blogs
- innovation.net Mike Docherty gives practical advice on implementing open innovation business models.
- openeur blogs on topics intersecting open innovation and entrepreneurship.
- semantic knowledge management - a Milcord blog on applying Open Innovation principles to software as a service
- more blogs ...
community
- ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management is an international network that promotes professional cooperation across nations and cultures through various events. ISPIM Facebook and LinkedIn networking sites
- PDMA - The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) connects innovators convolved in product development and management through annual CoDev conferences. Co-Dev social networking site
- Military Open Source Software (Mil-OSS) promotes the development and adoption of open source software for military applications. Google groups
books
- Chesbrough, H., Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era, Jossey-Bass, 2011. Henry Chesbrough describes how Open Innovation can help service industry to co-create to avoid the commodity trap model.
- Estrin, J., Closing the Innovation Gap, McGraw Hill, 2008. Judy Estrin describes the "innovation ecosystem" comprised of business, government, and academia communities that propelled America's post-World War II innovation boom, and empirically shows how America is in danger of losing its Innovation Ecosystem completely and its leadership role in the emerging global economy along with it.
- Nambisan, S., and Sawhney, M. , The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, Wharton School Publishing, 2008. A process oriented blueprint for building collaborative networks.
- more books ...
academic research
- Drapeau, M. and Wells II, L. Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment This report outlines four broad government functions of social software that contribute to the national security missions of defense, diplomacy, and development - inward , outward, inbound and outbound sharing, and articulate the fundamental obstacle in the adoption of social software within the government - security vs. sharing.
- Center for Open Innovation at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business conducts research in open innovation and open business models.
- MIT Center for Collective Intelligence focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach collaboration with researchers from the MIT Sloan School of Management, CSAIL, Media Lab and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
- more academic research ...
