e-Infrastructure and e-Services. 7th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2015, Cotonou, Benin, December 15-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Innovation Factory: An Innovative Collaboration and Management Scenario

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_11,
        author={Paolo Ceravolo and Ernesto Damiani and Fulvio Frati and Jonatan Maggesi and Riccardo Mainardi and Francesco Zavatarelli},
        title={Innovation Factory: An Innovative Collaboration and Management Scenario},
        proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services. 7th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2015, Cotonou, Benin, December 15-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={AFRICOMM},
        year={2017},
        month={1},
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        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_11}
    }
    
  • Paolo Ceravolo
    Ernesto Damiani
    Fulvio Frati
    Jonatan Maggesi
    Riccardo Mainardi
    Francesco Zavatarelli
    Year: 2017
    Innovation Factory: An Innovative Collaboration and Management Scenario
    AFRICOMM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_11
Paolo Ceravolo1,*, Ernesto Damiani1,*, Fulvio Frati1,*, Jonatan Maggesi1,*, Riccardo Mainardi1,*, Francesco Zavatarelli1,*
  • 1: Università degli Studi di Milano
*Contact email: paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it, ernesto.damiani@unimi.it, fulvio.frati@unimi.it, jonatan.maggesi@unimi.it, riccardo.mainardi@unimi.it, francesco.zavatarelli@unimi.it

Abstract

The Open Innovation model has its foundations on a very basic theoretical ideas: it is necessity to combine ideas internal to your enterprise and, at the same time, draw information and resources from the outside, i.e. from users, competitors, partners or others, who belong to the same market segment. This approach is well established and widely supported globally. However, in recent years, the technological solutions proposed have tried to provide cutting-edge solutions, which are able to channel resources from disparate sources to our businesses. But Open Innovation is not only this: its challenge is to break barriers, even if located within a single organisation hierarchy or geographical locations. Our work goes in this direction, introducing the concept of the Innovation Factory, where various new collaborative features are merged together into a consistent innovation management process.