Categories

We have divided the open innovator market into 5 categories for you. You can nominate any company that falls into one of the following:


1. Open Innovation – This involves companies sourcing or placing innovations externally towards a mutual benefit. This promises higher quality, faster and cheaper innovation.


2. Crowdsourcing – Usually on the web as the benefit of leveraging both the diversity and wisdom of the crowd for new ideas, products and partners.


3. Co-creation – This takes elements from crowdsourcing in valuing the wisdom of the crowd and yet also esteems the expertise of professionals, in a hybrid model.


4. Open Source Software – This is both about wide spread collaboration and opening up intellectual property via the creative use licensing strategies.


5. Open Business – Open business tend to open up their business process and models that often involve giving away a product or service for free, sharing it with a community and making revenue model around this.


Got any ideas? Nominate your favourite companies at: 
The Open 100