WIWES contributed by Vanessa Watkins
Holistic Innovation – Fusion of Product and Service Innova ...
The successful creation of innovations is considered to be one of the key factors for companies to generate sustainable competitive advantages and corporate growth. But the exclusive focus on creating smashing new product innov...
Reduced Security Control to Push Innovation
In a keynote Google’s former CIO Douglas Merrill describes Google’s approach concerning internal innovation culture as offering employees as much freedom as possible in their working/innovation processes, e.g, by letting th...
Ideas In Action – High Transparency at Dell Idea Storm
The multinational technology corporation Dell is giving interested users the chance to post ideas on products, best practices and general topics. Other users can comment and further promote or demote them. In a specific section...
From Closed Innovation to Top-Secret Innovation?
n Summer 2009, an employee of one of Apple’s manufacturer committed suicide after loosing a prototype of a next generation iPhone, There are rumours that he was maltreated and his house was searched illegally. Apple, common...
Edison Nation: Match-making for innovators and companies
Edison Nation is an online community dedicated to inventors and people with ideas. It aims at helping them to turn their ideas into products and companies discovering those ideas. People can submit their ideas (into the Live Pr...
In the beginning of 2009 the American cereals manufacturer Post came up with a new campaign under the tagline “Why we put the NO in Innovation.” By emphasizing the 100% natural ingredients and the fact that the product has ...
The Board Of Innovation, an online network of innovators, organised a 24 Hour non-stop marathon of innovation projects around the world on May, 15th of 2009. During a full day and night more than 60 participants presented their...
Non-Western Innovation Boom: Biotech in China
China invests vast amounts of resources into research programs in order to foster basic research and applied science, in particular concerning the sponsorship of future technologies such as biotech. The budget of research insti...
Traditionally, innovations found their way from developed to emerging markets in the form of less-sophisticated products at lower prices. The numbers of examples that work the other way around are increasing. It is more and mor...
New technologies and the possibilities of digitalisation make innovation processes cheaper and more efficient, as they enable easy testing and evaluation – offline and online. Enterprises increasingly use digital and conventi...
A Soured Economy Prompted a Boom in Crowdsourcing
The current global economic crisis has a pervasive impact on national economies and labour markets, resulting in increasing unemployment. Due to the fact that many unemployed workers do no longer have the chance to find a perma...
CoWorking Houses as Creative Hubs
More and more of the so-called knowledge workers from the creative class join so called CoWorking houses. CoWorking houses offer an easy, flexible and budget workspace (LAN and coffee flat rate included). They combine workspace...
Product piracy and product imitation cases are increasing
The growing number of cases of product piracy and product imitation reveal an increased threat to business interests and the customers´ security due to deficient products and the utilization of materials with negative health e...
A Holistic Approach: Demand and Supply-Driven Innovation Pol ...
So far, traditional innovation policy mostly focuses on the development of innovation, the supply side of innovation, so to speak. Researchers from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies identified four main trends con...
Innovation by Governmental Supported Start-ups and Entrepren ...
Public funding for entrepreneurial hubs and start-up financing is nothing new. Many of the world’s most successful innovation hubs bear the stamp of governmental invention (i.e. Silicon Valley, Bangalore or Guangdong), but no...
Idea Contest “Save our Energy – The energy efficient cit ...
The idea contest is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and part of the project “OFFIES 2020+: Open Innovation Processes for the Energy Efficient City 2020+”. Among others, it is organized by the...
Open for Questions – Crowdsourcing at the White House
President Obama was looking for new ways to open up the White House to the American people, in order to get different perspectives from all over the country and enable people to participate. For this purpose, the White House im...
Fully Sponsored Innovation Camp for Young People
Palomor5 is an (currently running) innovation camp looking for creative young people to develop ideas for new working environments that fit the needs and skills of the digital generation. 30 young and creative minds were invi...
Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Trai ...
The Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme is a non-profit organization that provides education and training for rural development in the very poor and diverse Kibaale District of Uganda. URDTP is seen as a benchmark p...
Fab Labs – Fabrication laboratories for everyone
The concept of Fablabs - fabrication laboratories for everybody with flexible manufacturing equipment, consisting of several production tools such as laser cutters, CNC-Machines, 3D-printers, water jet cutters and injection mol...
OScar is an open source project launched in 1999. The objective is to jointly develop a car on the internet according to open source principles. Thus, the soft- and hardware used in the project are freely accessible to everyone...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Social Search - The Real Time People Web
The amount of information being available on the web in real time explodes, especially since Facebook status updates and tweets on twitter. It is now possible to see what lots of people are talking about in real-time on the web...
Disruptive Innovation from India: The Tata Nano
In January 2007 Tata Motors, India´s largest company in the automobile and commercial vehicle sector, launched a four-seater car with a purchasing price of around 1440 Euro. The Tata Nano is now the world’s cheapest car. Aut...
Innovation Culture of the Tata Group
Tata Consultancy Services, a firm belonging to India´s Group, makes internal innovation corporate culture top priority. Several strategies have been implemented in order to build a culture of innovation and stimulate employees...
Venlo – A Whole Town Adopts the Principle of „Waste is F ...
Venlo (NL) and its 90.000 inhabitants adopted McDonough and Braungart´s concept of Cradle to Cradle (waste = food) as a vision for their city. This joints the industry with the politicians, the general public and the creative ...
