Data-Driven Innovation Scouting: Designing a collaborative platform for corporate venture capital

<br/>This thesis studies the strategic motivations for large firms to engage in partnerships with young ventures, and aims to design a service model for an intermediary that puts the needs of the large firm at the core. This project was commissioned by, and executed in collaboration with Venture IQ, an innovation scouting company founded in...

The Strategic Use of Corporate-Startup Engagement

In the face of technological discontinuities and disruption, convergence and increased global com- petition, established firms need to transform their business models more rapidly, more frequently and more radically than in the past. In line with the open innovation paradigm, which states that firms can and should use both internal and external...

Bridging the corporate and start-up world by creating “raise-up” companies: The development of a model that supports the creation of new ventures for corporate opportunities

To meet all of these requirements, this paper proposes a “raise-up” as a solution: “An adolescent organisation, designed to explore and scale a business model”. Put differently, this “raise-up” bridges the valley of death and enables the corporate to exploit radical innovations. “Raise-ups” are created to exploit a unique market opportunity that...

"Sustainability Maker - A Brazilian Spin-Off"

The "Sustainability Maker" is an initiative that aims to the creation of bottom-up approaches that leverage on recent phenomena such as crowd sourcing and crowd funding and is conducted on an online platform. The project investigate the possibility to integrate a Brazilian community in the strategic framework of the "Sustainability Maker". The...

Overcoming open-innovation barriers when developing a radical new technology for a novel food product: A case study

Literature Open innovation (OI) is an activity that enables knowledge to be transferred across traditional company boundaries. Although sharing knowledge is not something new, the broad scope of collaborations, and the implementation of external knowledge throughout the entire innovation process make open innovation something unique. The...

Best Practices for a Responsible Innovation Process: Application to a Car Manufacturer

Responsible Innovation seems to undoubtedly becoming an inexorable and necessary trend. That is, society calls for a higher embedding of values and ethics within the innovation process, especially with regards to sustainability. However, so far practical application of Responsible Innovation frameworks remains mostly at policy or academic level,...

Capturing Value from Open Data Platforms: The Utilization of Open Data Platform for Stimulating Open Innovation in the Public Sector in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Indonesia

Several public bodies have opened their data through open data platforms to promote transparency, participation, and collaboration among government’s stakeholders. This action stimulates open innovation in reusing those open government data. Yet, the study about the potential of open data platform to stimulate open innovation in the public...

The change of a defence contractor to become a systems integrator: A case study of Rheinmetall Air Defence

To deal with external changes and the current position of Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), it was decided that RAD’s current business model should be modified such that RAD will become a systems integrator. This research examined the potential transition towards this new business model with a focus on the involvement of external partners and the...

Development of a Co-creation Strategy Tool: For Fronteer Strategy

Design a Co-Creation tool for Fronteer Strategy complementing their current offer. The people at Fronteer Strategy have developed a tool for Cocreation called Rooftop. They knew that Rooftop worked well but they believed that they could benefit from a different and complementing tool in their portfolio. Co-creation, as a part of the more broad...