URENIO Research Unit

Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and former Xerox PARC Chief Scientist John Seely Brown presents his theory of a monumental economic shift from a push to a pull economy as outlaid in his 2010 book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. Continue reading…

Hutch Carpenter, VP of Product at Spigit, has published his keynote speech in the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 in Milan (June 9-10, 2010) where he speaks about innovation. Specifically, on the latest advances in leveraging communities to advance innovation. Continue reading…

NESTA, UK organised a conference to help companies navigate the Corporate Open Innovation process. The interactive day featured Open Innovation experts, experienced practitioners and NESTA case studies of open innovation from corporates including, Procter and Gamble, Virgin, Oracle, Orange and McLaren. Continue reading…

Researchers from the INSEAD and Wharton business schools published a study, Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, that analyzes the process of generating and selecting ideas. Continue reading…

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. Continue reading…

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. Continue reading…

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. Continue reading…

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. Continue reading…

Successful companies are partnering more aggressively than ever to satisfy the intensifying need for innovation, according to a recently published whitepaper, from Frost & Sullivan, entitled “From Concept to Commerce – New Innovation Models Spur Collaboration and Growth”. The paper ascertains that an openness and interdisciplinary spirit previously unseen, both within and among companies, is giving innovators the tools they need to capture the spoils obtainable through innovation leadership. Continue reading…