Open Innovation

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

• 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.
  

  
• NASA Ames Colab enables researchers around the globe to build relationships with NASA scientists supporting open source projects.
• OMB Max wiki is a secure government-only collaboration wiki site with over 7,000 users. The White House is using OMB’s MAX wiki to solicit innovative ideas, proposals and brainstorming about how government can tackle the topics of transparency, public participation and collaboration.
• DASHlink is a public NASA Web 2.0 website for NASA scientists and research partners to share data and knowledge with each other. CHI 2009 paper
• The Collaboration Project is an independent forum launched by National Academy of Public Administration to leverage web 2.0 and the benefits of collaborative technology to solve government's complex problems.
• more government initiatives ...

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 ...

Blogs

• innovation.net Mike Docherty gives practical advice on implementing open innovation business models.
• openeur blogs on topics intersecting open innovation and entrepreneurship.
• On Intelligent Software - a Milcord blog on applying Open Innovation principles to software development
• more blogs ...

Commercial Initiatives

• Amazon Mechanical Turk enables companies to use crowdsourcing for quick tasks that require human intelligence in exchange for micropayments.
• Eclipse is IBM's open source development platform. Listen to npr interview on open innovation driving IBM's Blue Gene.
• Open IT Works promotes sharing of best practices, shared problem solving, collaboration on a project, product and vendor reviews.
• more commercial initiatives ...

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 ...

Events

• Gov 2.0 Summit will be held in Washington, DC on Sep. 9-10, 2009.
• The XXI ISPIM Conference - The Dynamics of Innovation - will be held in Bilbao, Spain on 6-9 June 2010.
• 9th Annual International Congress on Co-Development and Open Innovation - CoDev2010 will be held at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas on January 25 – 27, 2010.

Innovation Marketplace

• 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 ...