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SMARTENING
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Issue #4The Engineering Technological Innovation Magazine
November 2014
OPEN INNOVATION:
WORKING WITH THE WORLD’S CREATORS
OPEN INNOVATION:
WORKING WITH THE WORLD’S CREATORS

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Brand New tools for Innovation
Our selection of trendsetting news, from SAP’s augmented reality applications
to ABB’s YuMi robot and 3D-printing into space
How bioplastics, glues or cobots are completely reshaping the production
process in the automotive and aeronautical industries
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Step-by-step howto with NineSigma, the leader in Open Innovation’s new
pattern of collaboration, innovation and production
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Open Innovation is an emerging pattern of collaboration, innovation, and production.
At its core is the understanding that in a world of increasingly distributed knowledge,
leveraging solutions developed by experts in the field, wherever they may be, brings
benefits that are extremely valuable to an organization.
Online communities and platforms have been developed to facilitate those inward
and outward transfers of knowledge. NineSigma is the leader in Open Innovation
with its online platform which acts as an innovation intermediary between solution
seekers and external innovation resources, worldwide. NineSigma has clients such
as Mattel, Pfizer, Under Armour, GE, Samsung Display, Johnson Controls, Haier
and Kraft. It provides two kind of tools : the Grand Challenge, paid by the solution
seeker, but only this company to publicize its challenge ; and NineSights, a free
platform where seekers and providers are anonymous.
In the next pages, we describe the various steps that lead to a successful open-
innovation project whether you are looking for a solution and willing to sponsor a
programme or whether you are a solution provider in search of funds to develop
your activity.
The Industry Avant-Garde
NINESIGMA:
HARNESSING THE
POWER OF OPEN
INNOVATION
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The first step in the creation of an open-innovation project is to
identify and articulate a major industry obstacle. The need should
resonate across the company’s industry.
Challenges can be practical, such as creating an easy-to-install
water pump for developing countries. Or a challenge can be critical
to solving an even bigger challenge—for example, isolating and
stabilizing a protein that may hold the key to an effective AIDS
vaccine.
IDENTIFYING A NEED
AND LAUNCHING A CHALLENGE
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With platforms like NineSights, NineSigma's free platform, a
company can reach out to a broad spectrum of innovation
communities. NineSigma’s Ph.D.-level scientists help design
projects to encourage participation from qualified innovators
across disciplines.
Calls for proposals invite submissions of 4 to 6 pages non-
confidential briefs.
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When launching a challenge, partnering with another company
or a non-profit organization can help pool resources to move the
technology faster to commercialization, while sharing the financial
burden.
A carefully-prepared plan will insure that both visions and
executions are shared appropriately between the partnering
organizations.
WHEN TO PARTNER
WITH ANOTHER SPONSOR
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A single project usually comprises of several rounds of evaluation.
Grantsareawardedateachround,withmoregrantsbeingawarded
in the first rounds, and fewer participants receiving larger grants
in the subsequent rounds.
At the end of the process, a single winner receives the largest
single grant to assist in establishing and commercializing its
technology. Each milestone for submissions, judging, and award
is an opportunity to bring attention to the project and for a
company to build its reputation.
EVALUATION ROUNDS
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A total sum of more than USD 28M in Grand Challenge prize money (the
largest challenges on the platform) has been offered on NineSigma in
2014.
Prize money is an incentive to attract technologists and scientists to the
competition, but it is not the only one. Finding a home for a solution that
they have developed, recognition for their advancement, interactions with
business advisors, funders and peer technologists are also essential.
PRIZE STRATEGY
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From the announcement of the challenge to the ultimate award to the
winner, a carefully-designed marketing campaign elevates awareness of the
message to a broader target community.
Every step in the challenge – the selection of the judges, the launch, the
awards – is an opportunity to raise awareness around the organization.
CREATING GLOBAL AWARENESS
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