An article in McKinsey Quarterly focuses on the factors that could redefine intellectual property competition in different industries. As open-source innovation, crowd sourcing, and engaging with open communities become increasingly prevalent, could Intellectual Property-free zones appear in the competitive landscape of other industries? Having studied the case of infrastructure software closely, we believe executives can gain some insight into this possibility.
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The Innovation Leadership Network website notes that at their core, all business models address this question: how do we sustainably deliver value to our customers? Business models can serve three different purposes. They can describe different kinds and types of businesses. They can be short-hand descriptions of how firms operate – the primary value here is that you can use the business model to ensure that you have strategic fit across activities. Or they can be role models – you can use them to describe how you want your organisation to function.
Sania Nishtar is the founder and president of NGO and think tank Heartfile a Rockefeller Foundation grantee. She was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Forum award for her leadership in health policy in Pakistan.
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From SciDev
Linda Kamau
Open innovation is key to the success of iHub and can change the working culture of any community of innovators, says Linda Kamau.
iHub is a network and meeting place that enables Kenya’s innovators to bring their ideas to fruition. Through iHub, the technology community, industry, academia, investors and venture capitalists can meet, share ideas and collaborate.
The centre is the first of its kind to operate in Kenya. It allows technologies to progress from the ideas stage to becoming real products and the key to its effectiveness is open innovation — the process of combining internal and external ideas, as well as internal and external paths to market, to advance the development of new technologies.
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From SciDev
Li Jiao
[BEIJING] China has joined forces with Aeras, a non-profit product development organisation, to start developing vaccines for tuberculosis (TB).
The China National Biotec Group (CNBG), the country’s largest biotechnology corporation, signed the final agreement with Aeras earlier this month (10 January).
CNBG is the country’s only producer and supplier of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which is currently the only vaccine against TB. However, the BCG vaccine does not prevent pulmonary TB, which is the most common form of the disease.
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