Recently, the Open Innovation Research Forum – part of the University of Cambridge – released a paper that shows results of a study among almost 1200 German innovation companies. The paper provides the hypothesis that several different innovation-enabling factors would generate more revenue within companies that embrace Open Innovation than within companies that don’t. To be precise: the authors refer to Open Innovation as the use of “search openness”, i.e. the use of external

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!