Cisco I-Prize Global Innovation Contest
Cisco announces its second Cisco I-Prize contest. In this open, global competition entrepreneurs submit proposals and collaborate to create the seed idea for Cisco’s next billion-dollar business. Idea submissions should fall in one of four categories: Continue reading…







This first conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brought together a multi-disciplinary international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration.
The working paper “Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation” published in the HBS Working Knowledge magazine provides an analysis of the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single user individuals or firms, and open collaborative innovation projects.
Google’s Project 10100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible.
The book “Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business”, from Microsoft and Sogeti, address the changes and opportunities that come with the new business world that is starting to show all around us, driven by autonomous, bottom up organizations where innovation and collaboration are part of their culture. The book covers the full benefits from Cloud Computing and anything available As A Service, from platform to complete business solution.
Future competitive advantage will depend on “innovation networks” — individuals and organizations outside a company that can help it solve problems and find new ideas for creating growth, according to Larry Huston, managing partner of consulting firm 4INNO.
The Economist has published a special report on innovation. The magazine spotlights on the open innovation – the notion of looking for bright ideas outside of an organisation. It provides a good, and critical overview featuring among others Professor Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Larry Page, co-founder of Google.