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HOME > MEMBERSHIP > OPENI > Open Innovation A New Annual Meeting Feature AOCS Connect, funded by the AOCS Foundation, will allow full technical registrants of the AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo to set up confidential profiles to facilitate social networking based on technical needs. All full technical delegates will be give an opportunity to complete an online, individual profile which will be the tool to connect with other delegates with similar wants and needs.
AOCS and NineSigma are partnering to bring you new opportunities whether you are an innovator with a technology or an organization seeking to leverage the external innovation community to overcome a business or technology challenge. Are you an innovator with a business or technology solution? Access NineSigma’s Requests for Proposals (RFPs). NineSigma partners with Global 1000 companies to transform their innovation capabilities by connecting them with the very best innovators from around the world. NineSigma’s open network of innovators is the largest of its kind and spans industries, geographies and technical disciplines. Client companies such as Xerox, GlaxoSmithKline, DuPont, Kraft, P&G, and Unilever utilize NineSigma to find new sources of innovation and knowledge not readily available in the public domain. NineSigma offers a straightforward process to address your company’s specific Open Innovation needs including:
Are you an innovation seeker interested in learning more about NineSigma’s services? Email innovation@ninesigma.com for more information. Founded in 2000, NineSigma is a private company with offices in the United States, Belgium and Japan. For more information visit: www.ninesigma.com. Resources:
Henry W. Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Harvard Business School Press, Boston. 2003 Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A brief History of the 21st Century, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005 James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1978 Watch for other Open Innovation opportunities that AOCS will provide. |
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