Open European Innovation Network

Dear all - this small poster is the first step towards our initial grant request for taking the Innovation Journey "on tour" with an aspired grand final at the London Shakespeare Globe Theater. Based off of this we are now starting to write the request, reflect on how to keep these Covid-secure plus understand the specific target groups of interest. More detailed feedback about the experience is now available at https://open-european-innovation-network.blogspot.com/2020/10/act-now-innovation-journey-inaugural.html . If you are interested in joining the proposal please let me know!  Cheers and have a good start to the week!  Oliver

Dear all - text alone cannot share the actual experience of an "Innovation Journey" event, but unfortunately, we have to make do with that for the moment. We can share videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSYeXtsr8i4&t=707s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IQsbpTphI&t=766s ), share pictures ( https://innovation-web.eu/act-now-the-innovation-journey-experience ) and share feedback from the participants (see below and anonymized to protect the innocent from the perfect memory of the Internet). In the end however, there is no replacement for going on the journey yourself ; so, do reach out to arrange YOUR experience! In any case - some feedback. The Innovation Journey is based on a small story of how innovation really works (see “A Really Really Good Idea” at https://innovation-web.eu/about ) and the workshop is itself an innovation journey – a safe simulation of what the big journeys of change truly look, feel, smell, sound and taste like! The Orchestrator

Dear all - on 15 October we presented a small conference paper summarizing our case study work in innovation diffusion using our Litmus Test Version 3 (see https://open-european-innovation-network.blogspot.com/2020/06/innovation-diffusion-litmus-test_10.html ). As a next step we will need to work on a more general method paper for a relevant journal - congrats to everyone involved! The conference was the CIRPe 2020 – 8th CIRP Global Web Conference – Flexible Mass Customization " A Maturity Model for Rapid Diffusion of Innovation in High Value Manufacturing " Authors were: Oliver Schwabe, Pinar Bilge, Andreas Hoessler, Taner Tunc, Daniel Gaspar,Nigel Price, Lee Sharir, Edna Pasher, John Erkoyuncu, Nuno Marques de Almeida, Piero Formica, Lynne Schneider, Franz Dietrich, Essam Shehab Abstract In order to support accelerating the diffusion of innovations in high value manufacturing related to enabling flexible mass customization, this paper presents a research-based maturity mode

  On Wednesday 14 October 2020 the world premiere of the "Innovation Journey" Play-in-a-Day occured during the Galileo Innovation Week in Padova (See  https://www.galileofestival.it/tc-events/contamination-lab-veneto-finale-della-terza-edizione/ ). Six students of the CONTAMINATION LAB VENETO had bravely volunteered to meet the unknown and met at the Cultural Centre of Padua (See http://www.altinatesangaetano.it/en ) at 9 am to prepare for THEIR story at 5 pm in front of perhaps 200 visitors in the audience. We had ONLY THREE HOURS to prepare and the nervousness mounted over time! We had met in a short Zooom on the preceeding Friday and did cheat a little in that everyone received the play script after that call (See https://innovation-web.eu/act-now-the-innovation-journey-version-2-20201006 ) and thus had a little time to explore the story they were being asked to present. In addition we decided to use the opportunity and ask Professor Piero Formica to act as "advocatus

Dear all, with the wonderful support of Piero Formica and Fabrizio Dughiero we can now confirm that this event is going ahead at the Cultural Centre of Padua ( http://www.altinatesangaetano.it/en ) as part of a scaled down Galileo Innovation Week (due to the Covid pandemic). See also https://www.galileofestival.it/tc-events/contamination-lab-veneto-finale-della-terza-edizione/ for the program and registration in case you can make it. The Padua "C-Labbers" (Contamination Labs students) are courageously grabbing the stage and everyone else is welcome to join. Performance will probably be in Italian (based on the English script attached) and we are excited to see what happens.  Preparation will be from 9 am to 2 pm (latest) and everyone is welcome to join us. The script can be found at https://innovation-web.eu/act-now-the-innovation-journey-version-2-20201006 and we continue looking for opportunities to work with you to deliver the opportunity. Please contact me if you have a