Unlock External Ideas. Accelerate Internal Growth.
By engaging in open innovation with external partners, organizations can tap into a wealth of ideas, technologies, and expertise beyond their internal resources. At The Big Bang Partnership, we facilitate open innovation initiatives that drive tangible outcomes and foster collaborative ecosystems.
What Is Open Innovation?
Open innovation involves leveraging external sources—such as startups, academia, and other organizations—to accelerate internal innovation and bring new solutions to market. This approach breaks down traditional silos, encouraging a flow of knowledge that benefits all parties involved.
Our Approach
We provide end-to-end facilitation for open innovation programs, including:
- Challenge Definition: Identifying key areas where external collaboration can add value.
- Ecosystem Mapping: Connecting with potential partners across industries and sectors.
- Engagement Strategy: Designing programs that attract and retain external contributors.
- Collaboration Facilitation: Managing workshops, hackathons, and innovation sprints.
- Outcome Integration: Ensuring that external ideas are effectively integrated into your organization.
Success Stories
- Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival: Facilitated collaborative sessions that brought together diverse stakeholders to address water industry challenges.
- Port of Tyne’s 2050 Innovation Hub: Enabled cross-sector collaboration to envision and plan for the future of maritime logistics.
Why Choose The Big Bang Partnership?
Our expertise lies in creating environments where open innovation thrives. We understand the nuances of cross-sector collaboration and have a proven track record of facilitating programs that lead to actionable results.
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Have you considered Open Innovation for your business?
If you lead a larger organisation, have you considered Open Innovation to help tackle your most significant challenges and opportunities?
Or, if you’re the leader of a smaller, potentially disruptive start-up business, have you ever explored some of the fantastic opportunities that are out there to collaborate with big business through Open Innovation programmes?
Maybe you’re a university researcher, interested in finding applied uses for your new ideas and discoveries?
Open Innovation is an approach taken by a business or organisation to access the ideas, technology and knowledge that is available externally, beyond its employees and existing supply chain.
Not every business develops everything in high levels of secrecy until new products are ready to be launched into the world. More and more companies are seeing the benefits of engaging with new and diverse networks and communities for some of their own new product development and solution finding. Those companies are also beginning to release some of their applied and unused innovations outside too so that more organisations can benefit.
We are currently involved in Open Innovation projects including Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival, Sellafield’s Game Changers technology programme and Port of Tyne’s 2050 Innovation Hub.
Please do get in touch if you’d like to talk to us about open innovation opportunities for your business.
