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.
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
Government Initiatives
Open innovation applications in the government has come a long way since the launch of the U.S. intelligence agencies' internal wiki Intellipedia in 2005. Collaborative applications now span several government agencies ...
- Open Innovation Portal The Education Department’s Open Innovation Portal crowdsources ideas for innovation in education
- TSA IdeaFactory enables employees to develop, promote, and improve innovative ideas for programs, processes, and technologies and share them directly, without filter, to the entire TSA community.
- Library of Congress Flickr Project is a nice example of the government publishing its archives at a social media site and letting the citizens evolve the exhibition with their comments.
- more government initiatives ...
Education Initiatives
Higher education is warming up to collaborative wikis as exemplified by some of the recent initiatives:
- 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.
- Scholarpedia is an encyclopedia project where invited expert authors write the articles subject to peer review.
Commercial Initiatives
- GreenXChange is a consortium launched by Nike and others dedicated to sharing patents and ideas that help companies reduce their carbon footprint.
- GitHub is a collaborative software development service for hosting source code projects using the Git open source distributed version control system.
- P&G connect + develop is a portal powering 50% of P&D new product initiatives through crowdsourcing.
- more commercial initiatives ...
Interviews
- Listen to 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.
- Listen to Federal News Radio interview with Judy Estrin author of Closing the Innovation Gap
- Listen to BusinessWeek interview with NineSigma
- more interviews ...
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 ...
Books
- 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.
- Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. D., Wikinomics; How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio Pub. Co., 2007. Popularization of open innovation for the business community by Don Tapscott, author of The Digital Economy and his colleague.
- 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 ...
Innovation Marketplace
- Opinno is an open innovation network of entrepreneurs, investors, and ideas.
- TopCoder provides an outsourcing community for software development.
- InnoCentive brings together innovation seekers and problem solvers using a prize structure.
- NineSigma is an innovation outsourcing firm serving Fortune 500 firms.
- more open innovation companies ...
