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Collaborative Innovation

Nextdoor.com: a private social network that brings digital and physical space together

Nextdoor is a private, neighborhood-based social network, currently available in the US. Registered neighbors can use Nextdoor to: Continue reading…

Posted by Margarita Angelidou at 16 May 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

The technological battle for Smart Cities; A. Townsend for WOBI

A. Townsend, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, talked in yesterday’s WOBI video about top-down and bottom-up smart city solutions. Continue reading…

Posted by Margarita Angelidou at 28 March 2012 in Collaborative Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Videos on Intelligent Cities

Five Co-creation Examples

Co-creation initiatives are deployed more and more frequently. InnovationManagement.se presents an aggregation of five co-creation examples to get inspired and research the opportunities that a more human and collaborative economy offers. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 28 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

Connecting Universities to Regional Growth

DG REGIO  published a guide to improve the involvement of Universities in regional development. The Guide has been prepared by Professor John Goddard of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies Continue reading…

Posted by Nicos Komninos at 20 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

Social Media and the City

IBM published a paper that explores how can the wealth of information being generated by social media help us better understand how our cities function and create smarter cities in the process? Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 20 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation, Strategic Intelligence

Open Innovation: What’s Behind the Buzzword?

Innovation has become a key competitive differentiator in today’s crowded, globalized marketplaces. For that reason, it has crept to the top of the corporate agenda. In this context, the concept of open innovation has begun to attract considerable attention both in company boardrooms and business schools. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 17 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

Incentivizing Innovation for Cities

Open Source Cities website spoke with Sascha Haselmayer, General Director and Co-Founder of Living Labs Global about the Living Labs Global Award and incentivizing service innovation in cities through competitions and open source citizen engagement. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 15 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

Open Innovator’s Toolkit

Aneesh Chopra, US first chief technology officer, released an “open innovator’s toolkit” that highlights twenty different case studies in how he, his staff and his fellow chief technology officers at federal agencies have been trying to stimulate innovation in government. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 15 February 2012 in Collaborative Innovation

Citizen 2.0 White Paper

RedCut has released Citizen 2.0, a white paper of case studies that include 17 examples of social media and government innovation: SeeClickFix, Ushahidi, ManorLabs, Vancouver Green City, NYC Idea Market, GovLoop, Yammer, Experience Grand Rapids, Turkayfe, US Embassy in Jakarta, Zonability, CultureNow, PopVox, Localocracy, Votenaweb, EveryBlock, and YouTown. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 13 November 2011 in Collaborative Innovation, Collective Intelligence

Sharing Secrets to Innovate More Profitably

Offering your best ideas to others may sound like bad business. But it’s better than keeping them under wraps, explains Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation in an interview in MIT’s Technology Review magazine. Continue reading…

Posted by Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at 4 February 2011 in Collaborative Innovation
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