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MiniBar Workshops
The Web Business Tool Box sponsored by DCKTN A Practical Workshop Series for Web Companies and Entrepreneurs. MiniBar presents ‘The Web Business Tool-Box’ workshop series. As usual, we’re employing a practical minded, no-nonsense approach to the design of the workshop series which will address common business issues in web and tech More »
- 17th Feb, 2010
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The Open 100
The Open 100 competition allows you to nominate your top open companies/organizations/platforms in the world, celebrating the power of openness and mass collaboration. The competition was born out of the UK’s National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) search for the world’s top 100 open innovation organizations. Now More »
- 29th Jan, 2010
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40Fires/Nesta Conference on Open Hardware
OpenBusiness is planning for 40Fires in partnership with Nesta a conference on Open Hardware on the 4th of December... More »
- 5th Nov, 2009
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OB talks to Head of Corporate Open Innovation at Nesta
Christian Ahlert speaks with David Simoes-Brown, Head of Corporate Open Innovation at Nesta, about his interest in Open Innovation and where he thinks its going. The interview conducted on 20 October gives a couple of ideas about possible shifts in corporate innovation and maybe even a few ideas about good business practice More »
- 20th Oct, 2009
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GreenXchange- Creative Commons Project
Creative Commons in conjunction with BestBuy.com and Nike are launching new project – GreenXchange. The project aims to examine how the digital commons can help holders of patents collaborate for sustainability. GreenXchange will be hosted inside the Science Commons wing of CC. They explain, “GreenXchange is very much an exploratory project. More »
- 4th Sep, 2009
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Lingaard’s ‘what not to do’
Stefan Lindgaard has offered an interesting breakdown of Campbell's open innovation strategy on his blog, which I think is definitely worth a read. His critique of their strategy for harnessing a community contains a number of really useful 'what not to d' tips for businesses of any size that are More »
- 28th Aug, 2009
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Archive: The Wealth of Networks
As part of the OpenBusiness relaunch, we are including a selection of some of our most popular articles published over the years. Originally published in April 2006, here OB talks to Yochai Benkler, author of 'The Wealth of Networks'. More »
- 29th May, 2009
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Archive: Interview with John Battelle
As part of the OpenBusiness relaunch, we are including a selection of some our most popular articles published over the years. Originally published in December 2006, here OB talks with John Battelle, author of 'The Search'. More »
- 28th May, 2009
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WeBank report launched
we just launched our report on ‘p2p finance, or ’social finance’ and attempt to provide more insight on whether emerging collaborative finance services online can become an alternative to banks. More »
- 10th Mar, 2009
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BarCampBankLondon2 on Feb 14th
Dear Innovators, It’s been a wild six months since the first London BarCampBank – the collapse of Lehman Brothers, sterling falling off a cliff along with the stock markets and even the man in the street talks about the credit crunch now – so we thought it was time for London’s More »
- 28th Jan, 2009
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