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Evolve or Be Extinct – The 2022 Report
During the Corporate Startup Stars Awards Ceremony, held today in London at the iconic Gherkin building, Mind the Bridge launched the Report “Evolve or Be Extinct. Open Innovation Models for the Future- Season 2022 - Highlights from Corporate Startup Stars” that analyses how companies are evolving the models of interaction with startups and scaleups.
Gold Standards for the World’s Companies to Incorporate Open Innovation and Corporate-Startup Collaboration
Gold Standards for the World’s Companies to Incorporate Open Innovation and Corporate-Startup Collaboration - Best practices for worldwide companies and SMEs emerging from Corporate Startup Stars Awards
Siemens is 2022 World’s Corporate Startup Star
For the 7th year running, the world’s most active corporates working with startups and worldwide best practices in corporate-startup collaboration have been recognized and identified at the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Launched by Mind the Bridge under the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership initiative in 2016, the Awards have been scaled at global level thanks to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). A total of 100 companies from all over the world have been named today winners in the 2022 Corporate Startup Stars Awards: 50 as Corporate Startup Stars - with Siemens securing the top position - and 50 companies named Open Innovation Challengers.
Evolve of Be Extinct – Open Innovation Models for the Future – Season 2022
Mind the Bridge, Evolve or Be Extinct - Open Innovation Models for the Future - Season 2022 - Highlights from Corporate Startup Stars, London, December 2022
Nasce “ORA! – Outpost Ravenna for Energy Transition”
Eni e Mind the Bridge hanno presentato il progetto ORA! – Outpost Ravenna for Energy Transition: una piattaforma di innovazione dalla forte vocazione internazionale focalizzata su tecnologie legate al mondo della blue e green economy che punta a supportare la transizione delle imprese del territorio grazie a partnership e collaborazioni industriali con startup e scaleup internazionali.
Desafia: 10 Spanish Startups ready to fly to San Francisco
Finally unveiled the list of 10 Spanish startups admitted to the Fall 2022 edition of the Desafia San Francisco Immersion Program. Their projects range from connection systems for satellites to online voting, blockchain technologies, real estate, sales and marketing tools, green solutions, interactive video technology, talent and job platforms.
Silicon Valley: l’Italia c’è
Le grandi aziende italiane stanno sempre più consolidando la propria presenza nello scacchiere internazionale dell’innovazione puntando a nuovi modelli e a nuove forme di open innovation direttamente in Silicon Valley. Ne è una prova l’ultimo Scaleup Summit organizzato da Mind the Bridge e tenutosi questa settimana a San Francisco: tra le decine di realtà internazionali intervenute, ben 9 sono le aziende italiane che nella Bay Area hanno iniziato, stanno iniziando o inizieranno ad avere una innovation unit sempre più strutturata grazie alla collaborazione con Mind the Bridge: Acea, Enel, Eni, FPTt Industrial, Iveco, LU-VE, Pelliconi e Terna.
Silicon Valley: still the place to be
New Report produced by Mind the Bridge confirms that corporate innovation presence in Silicon Valley is experiencing a steady growth both in number and size of the units, for a total workforce of approximately 40-50K innovation professionals from global leaders. The study also tracks an increased buy-in of innovation related strategies from top-management as well as the rise of the new phenomenon of Government presence from all over the world supporting innovation with stable representatives in the area.
Italia: l’Open Innovation finalmente decolla
L’Open Innovation decolla anche in Italia, secondo quanto rilevato dall’ultimo “Open Innovation Outlook: Italy 2023” prodotto da Mind the Bridge con il supporto di SMAU e presentato stamani da Alberto Onetti durante la sessione di apertura di SMAU a Milano.
Pelliconi Intrapreneurship Program: Building a culture of innovation
Pelliconi - the world's leading manufacturer of crown corks, metal and plastic caps for the bottling industry - has launched a brand-new Intrapreneurship Program, looking to leverage its workforce and generate ideas across departments and plant sites. The program, designed and implemented with the support of Mind the Bridge, is part of Pelliconi’s innovation strategy, including the recently established Antenna in Silicon Valley.
Desafia San Francisco 2022: applications now open!
Desafia San Francisco, the non-equity public assistance initiative addressed to Spanish startup founders with the greatest potential to successfully tackle the international market, will launch this November. Established by ICEX Spain Trade and Investment (the Government of Spain’s agency for the internationalization of businesses) and Red.es (the Government of Spain’s agency responsible for executing and deploying part of Spain’s Digital Agenda), and run this year by the advisory firm Mind the Bridge.
Immersive Technologies: Innovations in South Korea
South Korea is one of the most fertile grounds at global scale for developments in digital technologies. Factoring in the country’s advanced ICT infrastructure, pervasive high-speed internet connectivity, and the highest smart device penetration rate in the world (about 98%).In this scenario, a new trend is making its way in South Korea as the direct evolution of immersive technologies applied to a variety of industries: the “metaverse”.
HealthTech Industry: Advanced solutions and technologies brewing in South Korea
The Covid-19 pandemic has radically changed the landscape of HealthTech on a global scale, enabling an entirely new pace of adoption and implementation of new technologies - as innovations that once took years to be deployed now require a shorter time frame.
South Korea: the land of Metaverse – A new Report
South Korea innovation ecosystem now is becoming one of the world’s main innovation clusters, according to the “Tech Scaleup South Korea 2022 Report”, produced by advisory firm Mind the Bridge with the support of Korean National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).
EdTech : Future of education through open innovation in Korea
South Korea’s best innovations in the field of EdTech coming to Seoul Summit organized by Mind the Bridge (September 19-21). South Korea’s high-speed internet, strong technology companies, and reputation for early adoption of technologies – combined with one of the world’s largest proportions of teenagers entering higher education and huge household spending on out-of-school classes – has made it a major testbed for educational technology start-ups wanting a springboard to global markets.
Italgas opens a brand-new Innovation Antenna in Silicon Valley
Italgas, main distributor of natural gas in Italy and the third in Europe, inaugurates a privileged access point to the world of innovation in the United States within the "Mind the Bridge Innovation Center" in San Francisco.
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.