An ecosystem platform for innovation communities, with Lukas Strniste from Corporate Innovators

Lukas Strniste takes us to his innovation ecosystem platform, with several modules monitored by the orchestrator of the ecosystem – eLearning, community, knowledge base, remote events, marketplace etc.

Catalyst Constellations with Shannon Lucas and Tracey Lovejoy

Who are Catalysts, and how can you be a better Catalyst? Shannon Lucas and Tracey Lovejoy share the secrets to supercharge your capacity for driving impact.

Building meaningful communities with Panion, by Mélanie Aronson

Why is developing communities all the more essential in a context of lock-down? Mélanie Aronson explains why, and takes us through her platform, Panion, who’s on a mission for community-building.

Open Innovation: co-creation, and intrapreneurship with Nicholas Ind

Open Innovation is multifacets: Nicholas takes us through co-creation, and intrapreneurship

Social innovation and open innovation, 2 sides of the same coin

Charlotte Peleszezak is graduated in International business law and entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. Her professional thesis examined the link between open innovation and corporate social responsibility within large companies.

Le Village by CA, the open-innovation incubator

Fabrice Marsella is head of the Le Village by CA Paris or the village’s Mayor as they say! Benoît Bourdin is Deputy … More

Tech for Good? Generation2 is at the forefront of it

Jeanne Bretecher is a young entrepreneur, who co-founded with Steven Bertal the agency Generation2, a new kind of consulting agency … More

A business developer for your innovation: what for?

When we think of innovation, the ideation part often comes first in mind. Then, the iphone story, and design thinking … More

ISPIM Prize for Excellence in Innovation Management awarded to Imagine with Orange

ISPIM, International Society for Professional Innovation Management, is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants and public bodies who share an … More

Emotional Intelligence in coaching and management, with Victoria Mikhailova

Victoria Mikhailova is an experienced leadership coach with multiple skills: situation understanding and intelligence, process communication, and emotional skills and … More

Customer driven innovation at Ricoh, with Mike Irvine

Mike Irvine is the leader of Ricoh’s European Technology Centre. His team is responsible for bridging the gap between Customers business needs and the Ricoh engineering and development teams. I met with Mike at Barcelona Innovation summit, and was impressed by the presentation he delivered on customer driven innovation, and how Ricoh unfolds various ways to involve customers in its product roadmap. Mike kindly accepted to answer a few questions about it.

Scaling-up your innovation internationally, with Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler

Sihem Jouini and Christophe Midler, heading the PIC Master at Polytechnique Engineering and HEC Business School, just published a book on ‘Innovation management and globalization’, encompassing the research work and internship experience of their students.

Start-up, find your accelerator coach (2/2)

Let’s continue our accelerators’ tour with Numa, corporate accelerators Startinpost and Orange Fab, African Mest and iHub, and draw some selection criteria out of it.

Start-up, find your accelerator coach (1/2)

Wether you are a start-up or a large corporation, finding your way in the realm of incubators and accelerators is not easy. Y Combinator, L’accélérateur, 50 Partners, let’s share some direct feedback with no waffle!

Creative ecosystem fostering individual genius, a non-reproducible asset, by Michel Saloff-Coste

Innovation Ecosystem is a non-reproducible asset. You will find frugal ecosystems in South America, and vivid innovation in Austria, each has developed a singularity linked to its cultural ground, explains Michel Saloff