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Japanese Corporate Innovation in Silicon Valley – 2020 Report

By |2025-06-10T15:02:37+02:00May 21st, 2020|Innovation Outposts, Main publications, Research|

While reviewing the presence of corporate innovation outposts of the largest companies in the world in Silicon Valley in 2019, two major insights became clear: • Japan is the country that has by far the largest presence of corporations in the Bay Area, • Japan is the country where a significant chunk of capital deployed in Silicon Valley is originated. Understanding better the dynamics of these 2 trends has been the main driving force for this report.

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Open Innovation in Europe – 2019 Report

By |2025-06-10T14:57:26+02:00December 9th, 2019|Open Innovation, Research|

Open innovation means making use of ideas from outside your own organisation. It means accepting that ‘not all the smart people work for you’. However, it does not mean delegating responsibility for innovation or being passive in the face of change. On the contrary, those firms which have embraced open innovation effectively have well-considered internal and external activities and mechanisms that are specifically intended to facilitate innovative collaboration with other organisations, including innovative startups. This report, produced by Mind the Bridge (MTB) and Nesta as part of the Startup Europe Partnership project, provides an overview of some of these activities.

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