Open Innovation

With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country

Alexander Howard | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Code for America 2012, Code for America Fellowship, Open Data, Civic Engagement, Open Government, Code for America, Civic Hacking, Civic Coding, Open Innovation, Technology News
Alexander Howard

Given the economic pressures and challenges that confront hundreds of millions of Americans, the need for a killer civic "app for that" may never have been greater.

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Managing the Uncertainty of Open Innovation

Robert F. Brands | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Innovation, Tips, Open Innovation, Robert's Rules of Innovation, Business, Robert Brands, Business News
Robert F. Brands

One of the hottest topics in business management today is open innovation. The concept uses an open business model for companies to "co-innovate" with...

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Peace Journalism: Journalism On Steroids

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Design, Social Media, Arab Spring, Peace Innovation, Open Innovation, Peace Journalism, Media News
Tanja Aitamurto

What if journalism was biased towards supporting world peace? That would be a radical shift from the current situation, in which journalism is focused on covering war and conflict.

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Apps for Entrepreneurs Looks to Accelerate Startups With Open Data

Alexander Howard | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Small Business, Open Data, Apps, Government 2.0, Open Government, Developer, Entrepreneur, Open Innovation, Technology News
Alexander Howard

Over the last year, agencies have been trying to crowdsource their way out of problems. Now, the Small Business Administration is trying the mechanism.

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GE's Eco-innovation Platform

Andrew Winston | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Open Innovation, Venture Capital Energy, Ge Innovation, Entrepreneurship Energy, Beth Comstock GE, Ecomagination GE, Eco Efficiency GE, Venture Capital Green, Green News
Andrew Winston

The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovations.

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HuffPost Innovators: InnoCentive, Waste Farmers And More (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schedulicity, Waste Farmers, InVenture Fund, Innovators, Innocentive, Zoomatlas, Slidepollajax, Open Innovation, HuffPost Innovators Series, Business News

In the latest version of our HuffPost Innovators Series, we've compiled some of the most interesting and promising startups from the HuffPost communit...

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Nike's Open (Green) Innovation

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Chesbrough, Creative Commons, Nike, UC Berkeley, Competitive Advantage, Sustainability, Yahoo!, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, Ibm, Greenxchange, Open Innovation, Procter & Gamble, Best Buy, Green News
Andrew Winston

Nike, Best Buy, Yahoo!, and a few others launched the GreenXChange, an organization dedicated to sharing patents and ideas that can help companies reduce their environmental impacts.

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