Together with InnoPass and ideaken, DSM has launched an open innovation contest to get new and creative ideas on the applications of Arnitel® Eco, an environmental friendly elastomer. The prize? Tickets to the 2012 London Olympics. For more information, visit the ideaken website. To participate, submit your idea by March 1, 2012!

Gallery Hotel, Barcelona, 14 & 15 March 2012 Now in its fourth year, Breakthrough Innovation 2012 will once again bring together leading experts from the world’s most innovative companies to share best practice tips and discuss the latest trends and developments. The conference will feature a variety of sessions designed to maximise social interaction and knowledge exchange, including brainstorming sessions, talking circles, panel debates and keynote case studies.  There will

After having succesfully launched a poll in December, we decided to drop a new question for you. 2012 has just started and many newspapers, blogs and video’s are trying to show us the trends for upcoming year. Summarizing speeches of professional trendwatchers I ran into lately, I could identify a few trends that are interesting for 2012. Epxerience economy Most of the trendwatchers are seeing trends in the way consumers are acting in the market.

Last month, we released a Poll on linkedin and dropped the question “What is the greatest advantage of Open Innovation”. Quite some people voted and a good discussion started off. The results were as following:       What is the greatest advantage of Open Innovation? The result was not completely unexpected. Obviously, on the first hand, Open Innovation is meant to innovate faster and better. To my opinion, and some

We collaborated with Marcel Bogers, Associate Professor* at the University of Southern Denmark, to show you an exclusive preview of a lecture on “Managing Open Innovation”, that will air on Danish television later this winter. The lecture is about the “sources for innovation”: how to obtain and make use of external knowledge to commercialize ideas into innovations. The talk focuses on Open Innovation and the role that companies and users play in