How to Turn Intrapreneurship into Innovation
The success of intrapreneurship programs depends on more complex parameters including a company’s cultural propensity towards innovation, risk aversion, openness towards new ideas coming from the external environment. For these reason, it’s worthwhile understanding how they empirically work.
ACEA opens an Innovation Antenna in Silicon Valley
Italian leading water supplier ACEA lands in Silicon Valley and opens an Innovation Outpost inside the "Mind the Bridge Innovation Center" in San Francisco. The goal is to intercept emerging technological trends for the company's business areas and support startup scouting.
Launching MTB Ecosystem, AI-powered matching platform
Mind the Bridge opens its AI-powered matching platform for scaleups and corporates to government agencies from all over the world interested in supporting the most promising tech companies of their local ecosystem and attracting inbound innovation. MTB Ecosystem enables corporates, startups, investors and government partners to synchronize and manage their internal processes - from dealflow to feedback, shortlists and longlists, and challenges - and to boost the overall efficiency of their communication among its users.
Pelliconi opens an Innovation Antenna in Silicon Valley
With over 80 years of experience, the worldwide leader of crown corks production Pelliconi opens an Innovation outpost in San Francisco, powered by Mind the Bridge, in order to spot emerging trends and innovative solutions for the Food&Beverage Industry.
Scouting for the best Cloud and AI solutions: Noovle Cloud Challenge
Digital Health, Sustainability and Virtualization Technologies: these are the 3 areas where TIM Group’s cloud company Noovle and TIM Group's Open Innovation Program TIM WCAP are looking for Cloud and AI based solutions through the international “Noovle Cloud Challenge”, launched today and open until March 31st.
From CVC to Intrapreneurship: all our 2021 Mind the Chats, by topic
Mind the Bridge has decided to regroup by themes all the Mind the Chats produced in 2021. From Venture Builder to CVC, Intrapreneurship, Venture Client, Accelerators, Co-Innovation, Public Organizations, and Regional Ecosystems.
Pfizer, AXA and Xiaomi are the Top3 Corporate Startup Stars in 2021
For the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporates they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Pfizer secured first place, followed by AXA and Xiaomi. The global ranking has been unveiled today in Paris during the official Award Ceremony, opened by French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy Cédric O.
Evolve or Be Extinct – The 2021 Report on CSS Open Innovation
During the Corporate Startup Stars Awards Ceremony held in Paris on Dec. 16th, Mind the Bridge presented some of the main evidences emerging from the Report “Evolve or Be Extinct. Future Models of Open Innovation from the 2021 Global Corporate Startup Stars” that analyses how Fortune 500/Forbes 2000 companies interact with startups and scaleups at global level.
Eni opens an Innovation Outpost in Silicon Valley
Eni today announced it has opened its first "Open Innovation Outpost" in San Francisco, housed in the Mind the Bridge Innovation Centre. "Eni has been actively collaborating with a number of the most promising international startups and scaleups for some time now. The opening of this outpost in one of the most vibrant areas of innovation confirms Eni's determination to position itself at the forefront of the digital frontier".
Transformation in the healthcare system: Mind the Chat with Martin Curley – HSE
In this Mind the Chat Alberto Onetti meets Martin Curley, Director, Digital Transformation & Open Innovation at Health Service Executive (HSE), recognized with the 2020 Public Sector Open Innovation Award (as part of the Corporate Startup Stars program run by Mind the Bridge) for its ability to collaborate and co-innovate with startups.
Open Innovation in Italia: il bicchiere è mezzo pieno
Presentati a SMAU i dati del nuovo Report sull’Open Innovation in Italia: le grandi aziende trainano ancora il mercato e le PMI iniziano ad affacciarsi. Registrato un lieve miglioramento rispetto allo scorso anno per le Top 25 “Italian Corporate Startup Stars” ma la strada da fare è ancora lunga. Il settore più aperto alle collaborazioni tra startup e imprese risulta quello dell’Energia, seguito dal Bancario-Assicurativo e dall’Edilizia. Aziende di altri settori, tra cui Aerospazio, Automotive, Elettronica, Food, Media e Retail, si stanno progressivamente avvicinando all’arena dell’Open Innovation.
How Korean startup Business Canvas has created the perfect storm
This is the story of how Business Canvas, a Korean startup coming from Kised program, was first selected to join the MTB Global Startup Acceleration Program and then raised $2.5M in a Seed round led by Mirae Asset with the participation of Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. for their Typed, a simple-to-use digital workspace designed to streamline document and knowledge management.
Sardinia Region (Italy) opens an Innovation Antenna in San Francisco
Aspal - the Sardinian Agency for Active Labor Policies and the Regional Programming Center of the Sardinia Region - will in fact open their offices within the Mind the Bridge Innovation Center in San Francisco. An innovation antenna to intercept evolutionary trends and to offer support services to Sardinian companies in their quest to attract funding and enhance the Sardinian productive system.
Governments and Regions are The New Kids on the (Innovation) Block
According to the new Report “Government Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley”, presented today by Mind the Bridge during its Scaleup Summit program in San Francisco, the role of government agencies is becoming more and more relevant in supporting and bridging innovation between California and the respective home country.
Relax. There Is No Other Silicon Valley in Sight
The new “Tech Scaleup Silicon Valley” Report by Mind the Bridge and Crunchbase presented on September 15th at the Opening of the Scaleup Summit in San Francisco confirms Silicon Valley’s supremacy as the world’s disruptor.
Innovation: ANIA (Insurtech) lands in Silicon Valley
The Italian National Association of Insurance Companies (ANIA) will act as a technological and business models trend spotter for the entire Italian insurance sector through an Innovation Antenna, activated within the Mind the Bridge Innovation Center in San Francisco, as announced at the Opening session of the Scaleup Summit in Silicon Valley.
Mind the Bridge and Pollen8 together to accelerate Intrapreneurship worldwide
The global advisory firm Mind the Bridge and the UK platform enabled innovation consultancy Pollen8 join forces to engage, mobilise and inspire successful innovation through intrapreneurship.
South Korea: where tech giants grow faster!
South Korea is experiencing a never-seen-before momentum in innovation, as highlighted by the two Reports “Tech Scaleup South Korea 2021” and “Corporate Innovation in South Korea 2021” produced by Mind the Bridge with the support of KITA and presented today in Seoul at the NextRise event.