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We asked the following question on Quora…

According to Bruce Brown, P&G’s Chief Technology Officer, ‘the internationalization of R&D is a growing opportunity to tap into new technological trends worldwide and to benefit from scientific and technological skills, creating a virtuous circle for knowledge sharing between the foreign R&D centers and the parent company, but also to be part of a new local network with other companies and bodies, universities, public R&D centers through partnerships and joint-ventures’.

What are the best ways to implement Open Innovation programs?

Focusing first on Partnerships with startups, Research Labs, other companies, involving your customers, your suppliers ? Using problem solving platforms, organizing idea contests and crowdsourcing, beta-testing with users, providing Open APIs and opening your data, setting-up a Corporate Venture fund? Or should you first make sure your teams collaborate well within your company before to extend collaboration with your ecosystem ?
Here are some answers (thank you to all of you!)

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You can access the different formats of the study (infography summary and pdf) on this link. Open Innovation in France Is it still possible for France to close the gap with the United States? How can this be done? An industry study designed and conducted by bluenove May 2011 SUMMARY France major industrial firms are [...]

Because we believe at bluenove that the development of Open Innovation is closely linked to the one of Social Networking, we like this great view of some of the key evolution steps of Social Media