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Insights, news, and stories from the world of Open Innovation.

Key Open Innovation Trends to Watch in 2025
Discover how Venture Clienting, Sustainable Innovation, and AI are revolutionizing open innovation in 2025. These trends empower businesses to collaborate, reduce environmental impact, and leverage data for transformative growth.

How Open Innovation Enhances Venture Clienting: A Winning Strategy to effectively accelerate innovation cycles
This blog post explores the powerful synergy between Open Innovation and venture clienting, showing how integrating these strategies can drive growth, accelerate product development, and maintain a competitive edge. It also highlights to implement these approaches effectively.

How Open Innovation Revolutionizes Employer Branding
In a rapidly changing work environment, companies must position themselves as attractive employers. Attracting and retaining top talent has become increasingly challenging due to several factors.

Ecosystems vs. Networks: Why the Future Lies in Collaborative Ecosystems
True innovation goes beyond simple networking—it's about creating dynamic ecosystems tailored to address real-world business challenges.

Universities in Open Innovation Big Picture
Universities have long been bastions of knowledge and innovation, but their role in the open innovation landscape is both dynamic and critical.

Navigating Intellectual Property (IP) Rights in Open Innovation Challenges
Open innovation challenges offer a dynamic platform for companies and individuals to collaborate on solving complex problems or developing new products and technologies. However, the integration of diverse contributions can raise complex issues concerning intellectual property (IP) rights, which need to be managed to prevent disputes and encourage participation.

Utilizing Open Innovation for Efficient GenAI Integration in Your Business
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications are not just transforming industries; they are revolutionizing them. Among these transformative technologies, Generative AI (GenAI) stands out with its profound potential to innovate across sectors.

From Initial Connection to Industry Innovation: The APG and JadenX Case Study
When APG, a premier pension provider in the Netherlands, issued a challenge to revolutionize pension guidance through AI, they sought innovative minds to demystify retirement planning. This challenge aimed to harness the power of generative AI, like ChatGPT, to offer personalized, insightful, and accessible pension information.

From a Sketch in a Berlin Bar to the global Stage: How Innovation with Impact succeeds
In the beginning, sometimes it's a simple idea that lays the foundation for something great and the start of a successful journey. That's what happened to the Berlin-based startup Clurb when they summed up their founding idea in a statement in a Kreuzberg pub in June 2017: “We will do something simple and affordable, that cities can use with minimal external support”.

