In our last posts we have built a case that large organizations should invest energy in actively designing their early phase of the innovation process – the so-called “Fuzzy Front-End” (FFE) in a way that it delivers meaningful and promising innovation ideas and concepts. It is emerging practice that there are some key design parameters (see our last post for more …
Open Innovation in the Chemical Industry: Report from the Evonik in-house congress
Since last year, Evonik Industries, a global leader in Specialty Chemicals, supports adoption of Open Innovation by conducting annual in-house congresses on this topic. According to the Open Innovation paradigm, the speaker and panelist roster should come from academia and other firms – both from within and outside the Chemical Industry. Like in 2012, innovation-3 organized and facilitated this year’s …
Hot topics in Central European Open Innovation: Cross-funnel innovation, Big Data
In preparing the next workshop of the Practitioner’s Expert Circle, innovation-3 asked its clients about hot topics that should be the discussed. Two topics emerged: Cross-funnel innovation and Big Data.