David Copperfield’s Flying Illusion Revealed or how to protect your invention?
This is our first article intended for inventors and more precisely for public researchers. Traditionally, researchers (including myself) release their work to the rest of the world through...
View ArticleBest practices in terms of university – industry collaborations – Part 1
Within the Open Innovation paradignm, collaborations between industry and academia, that is to say between the university, or more generally, public research and industry (named UI collaborations in...
View ArticleBest practices in terms of university – industry collaborations – Part 2
Collaborations between university and industry (UI collaborations) can be fairly complicated. This is the case in France, as in other countries. In the first part of this article, I gave a summary of...
View ArticleOpen Innovation : Obama vs Sarkozy
In August 2009 White House sent a memorandum to the executives of various research agencies and departments regarding Science and Technology priorities for 2011 budget. The memorandum explains the...
View ArticleFrench Public Research is Not Wired for Innovation
At the Roundtable “SMEs: how to integrate advanced technologies, in partnership with public research” held at the “RDV Carnot” on May 5th and 6th in Lyon, Florin Paun, Deputy Director for Industrial...
View ArticleDo You Believe in Social Networks for Researchers?
There has been tens, if not hundreds, of attempts to launch social networks for scientists and for researchers over the last 3 years. The new “Linkedin for Researchers” or “Facebook for Scientists”:...
View ArticleA Novel Approach for Open Innovation Platforms : Multistep Dynamic Expert...
Open Innovation is necessary Resources in the traditional ecosystem of a company appear to be insufficient for many industrial or business needs. Open Innovation is the paradigm according to which...
View ArticleGetting help with open innovation
Dr Letizia Mortara, Research Associate at the Institute for Manufacturing’s Centre for Technology Management (University of Cambridge) has just released a new report on Open Innovation. The idea is...
View ArticleWhere Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Platforms Fail
The way Open Innovation crowdsourcing platforms work is rather simple, at least in principle: they help companies to match a problem or a need to an existing solution or to somebody able to solve the...
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