Open Innovation

Well-known transatlantic (etc.) airline with the Virgin aura of a consumer champion. Have recently started to use open innovation for new passenger services.

Co-development of passenger services with frequent flyers and lead users. The first major brand to buy from as well as sell to its customers. See http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/us/bookflightsandmore/innovationzone/vjam/index.jsp

To increase the speed and reduce the cost of innovation, organizations of all sizes are tapping external sources of research and talent. But these relationships are expensive. Whinot provides a proven process and web platform for small businesses to access relevant solutions and flexible talent to help improve their supply chain and operations. Whinot also provides a marketplace for knowledge workers to sell or share existing solutions…

Whinot seeks to be organized as a co-operative whereby net profits are proportionately allocated to its members based on their participation in both revenue-generating and platform building activities. Operating as a co-operative allows Whinot to step outside the competitive, winner-take-all crowdsourcing operating model. Instead, Whinot seeks to build a community where members are incented to collaborate to form better solutions, yet still be rewarded through the allocation of net…

XMOS designs and creates the revolutionary event-driven XCore processors, the XC concurrent programming tools and the XMOS applications software library.

XMOS designers enjoy the fastest route from idea to product, using standard programmable chips to create complete systems combining interface, DSP and control software. For entrepreneurs, students and designers in leading electronics brands, XMOS enables innovation and dramatically reduces costs.

XMOS fully understands and supports the principles of open innovation. XMOS is committed to demonstrating openness in four specific areas – tools, software, hardware board designs, and support for community projects and entrepreneurship. The XMOS XC compiler is being ported to LLVM to go alongside the current C and C++ compilers. Once this is complete there will be a complete, free open-source suite of design flow tools, from high-level programming languages in…