Innovation for the new year

To kick off a year with the right innovative attitude, Nestoria's just signed up to Mapize's Open Innovation Map.

What you're looking at above is a mapped visualisation of individuals and organisations working in the field of open innovation.  The 'open' bit in the name comes from open source. 

They've divided the players up into three groups:

• Iderators, who are start ups and researchers etc., people coming up with ideas.

• Scouts, who are business angels or venture capital funds, incubators or events or conferences promoting 'Ideators'.

• Open Innovators, who are 'Major Corporations implementing an Open Innovation strategy and willing to grow an ecosystem and network of Ideators, or if you are a Public body (city, government related initiative, etc.) developing an 'Open Data' project needing 'Ideators' to use your Public Data and Open APIs.'

Some big name companies have already signed up to the database, including the BMW Group, Dell, Ford, LG, Nokia, Philips, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Campbell and Colgate.

And the basic idea of this map or visualisation is that these three groups will start to interact – especially now they can see who else is interested in this field, and existing in the physical, or online space around them.  Hopefully it will be a chance for us to meet more people who are interested in the same things we are.  And may it be an innovative year for you also!

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