Archive for 'startups' Category
Bathtub to Warehouse Tour continues to Cambridge University – Innovative Product Development Discussion Group
After taking the ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ event to London twice in 2010 and to MIT in January we were delighted to make a ‘home’ appearance and bring ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ to Cambridge, UK earlier this week. The event was part of the Enterprise Tuesday Programme organised by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge University, [...]
Bathtub to Warehouse – innovative product development experts – on tour at MIT!
Braving the snow and the threat of freezing rain Duncan Smith and Ruth Thomson from the Consumer Team at Cambridge Consultants headed to MIT in Cambridge, MA to take our ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ seminar on the next stage of its tour! ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ is our name for an event where we explore how the product development [...]
Our innovative consumer product developments hit the market – Christmas present anyone?
We are delighted that two of our product innovation projects have made it to market in recent months. The Q2 Cube radio is based on our Iona internet radio platform implemented in a really novel way; it’s got no dial, no buttons and no display. Instead you tip it, tilt it or roll it to [...]
Kick-starting open innovation with formulation
Yesterday was the ‘Formulated Product Design: Kick-Starting Open Innovation’ event in snowy Harrogate. This was a networking and matchmaking event aimed at connecting Open Innovation staff at large firms like P&G, Reckitt Benckiser and Kraft Cadbury with small companies delivering innovations in formulation. This was interesting to us, because we often get called on by [...]
Seedcamp 2010 – Startup product development
Seedcamp hit London this week, and on Tuesday I went along to be one of the mentors helping the seeds and startups on Going to Market day. 23 startups from across EMEA had been selected for this bootcamp with access to over 100 different mentors each day (wow!). Mentors included venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, interaction [...]
Young startups and innovative product developments
On Saturday, I had the great privilege of being part of the judging panel for the Cambridge Young Enterprise awards.
How do you implement Open Innovation?
The concept of Open Innovation has been around for a while now. Many companies have jumped up and down and declared themselves to be ‘open’ for business, but how does this actually work? how are they implementing OI in practice? what issues have they faced? and how are they overcoming these? The work of Letizia [...]
Partnerships for Open Innovation – Tackling the issues of how startups can work with large companies
Open Innovation is a large company concept isn’t it? Yes, but large companies will be looking to partner with early stage companies as part of their Open Innovation (OI) strategy. Therefore this is an essential topic for startups who need to understand how to make the most of OI and to help them form partnerships [...]
Workshop for tech-based startups
Have you noticed how the product development process maps really well onto the stages of the investment ladder? On Tuesday we held an event for early stage technology companies to explore how they could use this to their advantage. In practice this means using demonstrators and good engineering practice to address credibly the tough questions their [...]
