1 October 2009

Open innovation | Institute for Manufacturing | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom

New guide highlights ways to introduce open innovation

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Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) has produced a new guide to show how companies can follow in the footsteps of firms such as Unilever, BP and Philips, which have embraced open innovation as way of developing new products or accessing new technologies.

The report, “How to Implement Open Innovation”, is the result of a two-year study of some of the world’s leading firms. The research team looked at more than 30 major companies from a variety of...

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