Open 100 – companies in alphabetical order

Grogger is a publishing platform that enables publishers to better engage their community for content. For publishers to grow, they require more and better content. Typically business hire more journalists to do this. Grogger allows for the community to supply content rather than the editorial staff. Grogger then allows the editors to curate and manage the content through highlighting tools and by delegating superusers as editors of…

They are open in that they are creating a new publishing model where the audience is the reporter. Instead of one-way publisher (I talk, you listen), Grogger is enabling a many-to-many model

The Guardian created an open platform, which is a suite of services that makes it possible to build applications with the Guardian. They have opened up their platform to give access to our journalism, their brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk. The first two services they’ve released as part of the platform are the Content API and the Data Store. The Content API is a service that allows partners to select…

Not ony do they give away their content for free, but they also let users use the content to build appliations around to e.g. analyse/research their data. They openned up their content for others to use. The Guardian is not involved in selecting or checking any application, which makes it a more open service than some other crowdsourcing platforms.

Harkopen.com is an internet open source community with the main goal help the world interconnect. By offering web tools to post electronics projects and find parts and by the other side to offer services, tools and help the community can grow faster together and make awesome open tech. The website offers a news section, projects hosting, suppliers list, hacker spaces locations and tutorials, while promoting open source hardware on…

Every type of content available on the website is user submitted and anyone can register for a free account and submit news, projects, suppliers, hacker spaces or tutorials. Also harkopen.com has a strong open presence on social networks empowering everyone interested in open hardware to learn more and join the movement.

HDA comprises a team of architects and engineers providing specialist design services. Their work strives to provide design that is a synthesis of poetic intent and physical reality. Each project, big or small, varying from long span structures down to a small fixing detail, begins with a clear architectural idea with its own specific story to tell. The successful realization of the idea is dependent on a thorough…

HDA runs an open research platform named complexitys which is about architecture and complex geometry. The blog aims to build a space for open debate on contemporary architecture and new technology issues. Complexitys is also the central node of an extended, international connected network system of sharing and debate tools like flickr, twitter, youtube and several external blogs – it collaborates with the spanish open platform www.ecosistemaurbano.org and architectural…

Within their HP Labs department Hewlett Packard opened up an open Innovation Office. HP Labs’ Open Innovation Office pursues and coordinates research collaborations with top researchers and entrepreneurs in academia, government and business around the world. It ensures joint research endeavors result in high-impact research that meets HP and its partners’ scientific and business objectives. The office consists of a global team, bringing together expertise from around the world to foster…

HP Labs Open Innovation Office is mainly about creating collaborations with external parties like researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Their focus is on the front end of the innovation journey, like research and possisble technology developement in which they want to partner/collaborate with external parties, not necessarily the actual development of new product/services. So openness here is about collaborating with extrenal parties in the first bit of the process.

The Hexayurt Project is an open source disaster and refugee housing initiative. It’s not a charity, what it does is design and teach building techniques which allow for the construction of large quantities of very cheap housing in emergencies. Right now several groups are considering using the Hexayurt in Haiti, from US Southern Command through to small religious groups. The openness of the approach allows for incredibly diverse collaboration.

The Hexayurt Project has no copyright or patent on its materials – everything is 100% public domain. It has collaborators from a diverse range of entities, from various branches of the Red Cross, design schools in Sweden and the Netherlands, to the US DOD which has been a long-time promoter of the Hexayurt Project and its tools, like the SCIM infrastructure mapping system.

Hubbub is a proprietary Internet application that allows businesses and organisations to attract and publish all kinds of ideas and feedback from a much wider community.

Once published on Hubbub, ideas can be universally collaborated on, voted or demoted, and eventually, in the case of the most influential, be adopted by the organisation in whole or in part.

HYVE merges expertise in co-creation, crowdsourcing and open innovation to provide a unique offer for companies which want to integrate consumers throughout all stages of the innovation process. HYVE`s expertise in co-creation, open innovation and crowdsourcing is based on 4 pillars: 1) Thought leadership: More than 100 publications related to open innovation and long-time collaboration with leading academic institutions (e.g. MIT Boston). 2) Development of…

From a company perspective “openness” means: 1) State-of-the-art tools to interact with consumers in a playful environment. 2) Access to consumers’ implicit knowledge as they co-develop their own products within the solution space. From a consumers’ perspective “openness” means: 1) Empowerment of consumers from pure informants about needs and preferences to co-creators of their preferred products. 2) Playful interaction which makes participation more fun than…

IBM really focusses on opening up, they not only use Linux, but are a great supporter of what they call – collaborative innovation. They have for example opened up their global innovation outlook – open now for everyone to participate. Another example is the IBM’s Jam programs in which IBM creates global online brainstorm sessions (on different topics they can differ from business related to social issues) were everyone can…

You can really see that IBM has adopted openness as a business model. They try to open up different parts/product and services of their business. Also they have taken it further then just their business, by organising these Jams they enable others to collaborate/debate on different topics. Using Linux is another example of supporting others in their openness.

Online Data Services Ltd. and IdeaConnection.com are all about innovation and creative solutions. Solutions to corporate problems and solutions to problems that will benefit the Common Good.

Collaborative Innovation Broker/Portal