Presans invited to the Tuesdays of Innovation (video)

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Presans aux Mardis de l Innovation de Marc GigetOn February 26th 2013, Marc Giget invited Presans to the “Mardis de l’Innovation” to present its vision of the Open Innovation and crowdsourcing.

(See video at the bottom of this post!)

Les Mardis de l’Innovation (the Tuesdays of Innovation), presented by Professor Marc Giget, aim to spread the culture of innovation in various forms through open conferences and debates. Topics include:

  • theories and key concepts of innovation,
  • best practices in innovation around the world,
  • innovation in areas of rapid change,
  • important periods of the past for innovation and innovation in other countries.

The theme of the evening of February 26, was the Open Innovation and crowdsouring. Marc Giget presented the recent developments in crowdsourcing with a focus on crowdfunding.

Then four companies exposed their recent views:

  • Eyeka: crowdsourcing for marketing purposes.
  • NineSigma: identifying partners for the technological problem solving. Patrick Ferrand exposed the classical theory of Open Innovation developed by Chesbrough.
  • Expernova: mapping software skills. Pascal Magnier presented the evolution of their tool: initially focused on expert identification and now more and more towards intelligence (data interpretation, statistics etc..). Very good tool.

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Is Our Niche Safe from Google?

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At Presans, a question we ask ourselves every now and then is: could it happen that a big player, say, Google, decides to enter the business of open innovation in one way or another? Google already provides very decent patent and search tools for free. What about crowdsourcing or crowd innovation? Just to be on the safe side, let’s take a quick look at a few things they have going on in these areas.

1) Google Science Fair

Science challenge for bright minds aged from 13 to 18, currently in its third year. The focus is on ideas that will change the world, such as Simplified Hydroponic Methods for Swazi Subsistence Farmers.

2) Solve For X

“A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and collaboration.” Example of moonshot thinking : Getting Rid of Nuclear Waste.  The future of the nuclear industry is always a hot topic and we may return to it in another post or series of posts. 

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Citroën Creative Awards

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Citroën recently launched its 3rd Creative Awards on the topic of connected vehicle smartphone applications. The motto of the challenge: “Open up your ideas”. Participants have until 2/10/2013 to submit their proposals.

In 2012 the challenge drew 802 ideas from 87 countries. It will be interesting to see if this open approach yields new applications in a domain that has already received a lot of attention from the manufacturer.

PRESANS receives 91 d’Or award

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Over 300 people were in attendance last Tuesday in the amphitheatre of the Evry Genopole when founder of Presans Albert Meige, surrounded with such notable personalities as Serge Dassault, received in the name of his company the 91 d’Or, a trophy delivered each year by the local Medef organization to outstanding businesses located in the Essonnes département. Specializing in open innovation, Presans was founded in 2009 and is currently growing strongly.

Presans at Paris Space Week

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Paris Space Week is an event focused on spatial exploring and exploitation, major challenge of the next 20 years due to the strong participation of the set space powers (USA, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe) and of the emerging ones (China, India…).

You can come and meet Presans on 19th of December 2012, 1/13 Quai de Grenelle, 75 015 Paris.

You can find more information on the event here.

If you wish to meet us there, please contact us: dj@presans.com

Trust within the (French) pact for competitiveness

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“Promoting innovation and quality, entrepreneurship and risk-taking, breaking down barriers and working together, developing skills and (re)giving a taste for technical progress, opening new spaces for dialogue and stimulating collective intelligence. Here are all the ingredients to mobilize forces in the country and in particular its youth.
This is where confidence and optimism will come from, and therefore success. “

Will the approach proposed by the Gallois Report create confidence?

The 10th, 11th and 12th proposals certainly will contribute towards this goal: a “Small Business Act” to fix the rules of the game, requiring large groups to combine their suppliers (to obtain state support) and to develop their exchanges (IRT, clusters, industry committees …), increasing opportunities to learn or relearn to play  as a team.

But perhaps we should first (re-)establish trust.

According to Morgan and Hunt, two leading researchers in the study of interfirm relationships, trust in a relationship is when an actor has confidence in the reliability and integrity of his partner. Thus, trust relies on a shared frame of reference: the rules of the game, and the ability of firms to expect that the other refers to it: will he play according to the rules?

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Presans at Defence & Security Days

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The Defence and Security Days networking meetings are the only pre-scheduled business meetings dedicated to develop industrial relations among defence and security industry players.

Come and visit Presans  at our booth at Paris-Orly Airport on 28th and 29th November 2012.

You can find more information on the event here.

If you wish to meet us there please contact us.

Presans at MEET INNOV

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With this 8th edition, Meet Innov has established itself as an indispensable meeting point for innovative companies. Qualified appointments, global conferences, funding agreements, talent competitions and international affairs convention will all take place this year at the international Airport Paris-Orly on 22nd of November 2012.

You can find more information on the event here.

Come and visit us at Meet Innov (contact us).

PRESANS partners again with the 24H OF INNOVATION

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The Biarritz-Bidart hackathon will enter its sixth year on the 19th of October. More participants, teams organized accross multiple sites, more nationalities, and futurist Jeremy Rifkin invited to deliver a keynote – The 24 Hours of Innovation event keeps raising its profile. Such a one-day global creativity nexus needs a global expertise search engine: this time around, X-Search, developped by Presans, will be directly integrated into the website of the event.

Presans at Aéroliance

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PRESANS participates to  Aéroliance from  the 10th  to the 11th of October at Grande Halle d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Companies in the aeronautics sector need a targeted and affordable development tool which will allow them to access short-term development opportunities which do not require substantial prior investment.

This is why Auvergne, the 4th largest French region in terms of aeronautics activity, has decided to assume the major proportion of organizational costs in order to allow widespread participation in one of Europe’s largest business conventions.

You can find more information on the event here.

If you wish to meet us there please contact us.