The First Study of Open Innovation in France

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The first ever study conducted in France ‘Open Innovation in France’ was presented during a Press Conference in Paris on May 31st 2011 and the English version was released online on June 7^th 2011 at the Word Innovation Forum in New York.

An infography summary is available on this link : Open-Innovation-English-3
The detailed version is available in pdf format on this link:  Study 2011 by bluenove ‘OPEN INNOVATION IN FRANCE’ or on our blog.

The summary version is also available on slideshare.

The French version of the detailed study is available on this link.

Bluenove supports international companies to implement Open & Collaborative Innovation projects in France and Europe. For instance, we have helped a Brazilian leader in the Cosmetic industry to detect, assess and map potential innovative partners in Europe.

We also support change management projects to implement collaborative software solutions and dynamics within organizations.

We are also interested to identify consulting partners worldwide who may be interested to conduct a similar study in their own country in order to develop a benchmark approach or map such as our Open Innovation Map: http://www.openinnovationmap.org

Feel free to contact us for more information about the study or our services at contact@bluenove.com

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Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how.

A Short Introduction to Co-working and the Cloud

A co-working facility is an open office environment shared by multiple freelancers and SME companies or company representatives. A collaborative group of connected individuals.

These facilities are often much less expensive to rent and maintain than traditional office space because of the flexibility of 'office hours', and they can closer to participants’ homes.

Co-working spaces are still in their infancy in many locations but they are very popular, economic and very efficient. Therefore, they have to be considered as a viable option in these troubled times.

research proposes that there are only about 70 such 'co-working' locations in the world, sprinkled throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. But their potential contribution to growth and recovery is greater than these numbers might suggest.

Just as cloud computing represents a more nimble and spontaneous, multi-sourced data environment that may augur the next new thing in technology, 'co-working' sites are the seeds of a less restrained and possibly more creative “cloud office” environment of the future.

Co-working cannot and does not provide a single solution to multiple organisational problems but could be a contributory factor in the examination of effective flexible working practices in difficult and dynamic market exposures.

Here is an indicative list of some problems to be considered and addressed.

• the space demands of flexible, multi-geographical workforces;
  
• the costs of permanent offices;
  
• the potential inconvenience of working at home, especially for employees with children and dependants;
  
• the inexperience that many employees have with alliances and joint ventures, which are natural outgrowths of shared space;
  
• the energy waste and carbon footprint inherent in a commuting population;
  
• and the sheer waste of time, resources, human capability, and energy spent moving people back and forth across a metropolitan area, only to have them on the phone or reading e-mail most of the day.

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