Open European Innovation Network

Dear all, this first of a series of case studies is aimed at our “invisible college” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College ) of innovation webs and diffusion of innovation enthusiasts. The case study is a first step towards a case study series in Harvard Business School format that will be integral to the learning curriculum proposed for development in our Knowledge Alliance proposal (see downloads page at www.innovation-web.eu ). All comments and suggestions welcome of course. If you would like to try out the case study in your company or with your students please let me know if you would like further guidance on getting best results. If you would like to contribute a case study let us know as well – it will take about two calls of an hour each with some short email exchanges in-between. Like all of the upcoming case studies, this specific case study is based on a real success story in industry and fully anonymized / abstracted to protect the innocent. Comple...

The Open European Network for ENTerprise InnOVation in High Value Manufacturing (ENTOV-HVM) – see www.innovation-web.eu - and Entovation International – see www.entovation.com - in collaboration with the University of Padova – see https://www.unipd.it/en - are excited to announce the world premiere of “The Innovation Journey” stage “play in a day” during the Galileo Innovation Week in Padua, Italy – see https://www.galileofestival.it/ - on Tuesday May 5th, 2020 at 6:30 pm in the Sala Rossini of Caffè Pedrocchi – see https://www.caffepedrocchi.it and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrocchi_Caf%C3%A9 - in the city centre of Padua. Register for free at  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ the-innovation-journey-stage- play-in-a-day-padua-2020- tickets-96239074663 !!!! The stage “play in a day” tells the story of how an innovation travels from ideation to market saturation and will be performed by a group of novice actors who convened at 10 a.m. in the morning of Tuesday May 5...

Dear all – in Zweibrücken we laid the foundation for a new project proposal under the leadership of the University of Padova focused on disseminating the capability to accelerate the diffusion of innovations from ideation to market saturation. Three basic phases were identified: Educate, Ideate and Diffuse. The phases would of course be “packaged” in the normal supporting work packages around management, quality assurance, effectiveness evaluation etc. like we have in our current Knowledge Alliance proposal. The image is a first draft of a potential logo and name courtesy Peter Plapper, University of Luxembourg. The proposed project name of “Kardinal” needs to be explored further since it will need to represent a suitable acronym. Structurally we discussed creating a distributed network of higher education nodes across Europe where researchers would deliver the phases and “circulate” participants among themselves in enable cross-contamination. Starting nodes could be in German...

Dear all – as we move to finalizing the proposal in the next weeks please see the description of the role of the business participants. There will be separate conversations started to clarify any details and after February to actually launch into the project – albite slowly since funding will not be available yet. The following text is included in the proposal for every business participant – note that the limit is 1500 characters with spaces- Modular origami image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami and perhaps illustrating the challenge of folding the participation of various roles into an effective symmetry.   “This is a business participant in the project and primarily responsible for providing a case study at the outset of the project, verifying the robustness of the simulation tool developed, verifying the robustness of the design principles created, validating the overall simulation model in practice and piloting the career framework as it develops. The par...

The Open European Network for ENTerprise InnOVation in High Value Manufacturing - ENTOV-HVM ( www.innovation-web.eu ) held its Inaugural Roundtable and Initial Training Day on Wednesday January 22 nd and Thursday January 23 rd , 2020 at the Hochschule Kaiserslautern in Zweibrücken, Germany. The event was hosted jointly by the Competency Center "OPINNOMETH" (Operational Excellence and Innovation Methods) at the Hochschule Kaiserslautern and the ed-Media e.V. Institute for Innovation in Education and Business Processes. Over 20 innovation professionals joined us from around the world, nine months after launch of the network, to align around efforts, share stories and set the foundation for new proposals to co-create. The event was sponsored by the Hochschule Kaiserslautern ( https://www.hs-kl.de/en/betriebswirtschaft/aktivitaeten/kompetenzzentrum-opinnometh ) and ed-Media ( https://ed-media.org/ ), Entovation International ( www.entovation.com ),   Eurofocus Internationa...

Dear all – while there are many activities underway to finalize preparations for the January 22/23 event in Zweibrücken and the to complete our Knowledge Alliance proposal for submission by 26 February latest, there is a fundamental question we need to start exploring which is “How to “track and trace” the diffusion of an innovation from ideation to market saturation. In my previous post I suggested the analogy of “cookies” that we encounter on the Internet as a tangible example for reflection. Internet cookies basically allow a website to identify users (to then capture user information) and then provide customized services to those users based on the information gathered. Another nice analogy might be diffusion tensor imaging used to explore diffusion of changes in organisms – the image shows this for the human brain ( https://www.imagilys.com/diffusion-tensor-imaging-dti/ ) When it comes to “ideas” we are faced by these arising in many different places, in many different ...