2. An international community of smart and specialised organisations
that connect and coach innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs
to start, grow, and transform our economies
15. Understanding entrepreneurs’ needs
Access to potential clients/distributors
Access to technology partners and infrastructure
Improving financial robustness
Projecting business trend & sales with longer time scale
Optimizing margins & reducing potential bad debts
Ensuring quality, compliance & customer satisfaction
Building reputation, skilled team, & differentiated USPs
Innovation, validation, coaching & mentoring
Partnering with Business & Innovation champions
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16. Understanding what Corporates want
Identify new trends, new ideas
Find unique concepts, new hot designs
Acquire & Integrate new IPs, Technos, Apps
Help (& control) champions in the growing
Invest in hot start-ups & SMEs
Increase adoption of proprietary standards
Co-llaborate, Co-design, Co-innovate
Partner with out-of-the-box selected stakeholders
17. Open Innovation means
Investing in interactions
Stimulate creativity at the periphery of the core business
Take an active part in your ecosystem’s life
Develop an acute sense of advanced services
Capture capabilities held by small firms
Open your non core-business IP (licensing + spin-off)
Let others develop your non strategic initiatives
Sponsor communities of young talents & of apps developers
18. How does open innovation works ?
Integrate innovation & partnerships at the core of the strategy
Move from optimizing business to creating business
Develop innovation scouts teams
Stimulate participative management
An « inside-out » open process interacting with
Balance supply-pushed with demand-led
Design systems for ideas assesment & prioritization