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Open Innovation Game: Large and Small Companies partner in the quest to germinate the next great idea

Competitions and crowdsourcing platforms drive new modes of collaboration, business alliances and growth.

The race is on – European start-ups invent new apps and business models based on Windows 8

Watershed moment for Microsoft and the computing community as developers get creative with new operating system. Live tiles” in Windows 8 inspire Captain Dash’s drive for data democratization.

Small companies win big in innovation partnerships-creativity is in the network

Open innovation networks can help SMEs become highly profitable, but they only work as long as the value jointly created is significantly larger than that produced by the partners on their own.

Webinar with Henry Chesbrough, father of open innovation

Learn how Europe's small and middle-sized companies can drive global competitiveness through innovation partnerships.

Let disruptive technologies flourish

by Lambert van Nistelrooij

Finland’s AppCampus funds Windows Phone App innovators around the world

by Alina Kangasluoma

Open innovation is vital for resource-constrained start-ups

by Samuel Mueller

The Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) provides business and innovation support, in particular for SMEs, through its Europe Enterprise Network. More

Microsoft activities in the field

BizSpark, launched in 2008, is a global support programme for entrepreneurs designed to help accelerate early-stage start-ups. More

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