Below is a list of great examples and resources related to open innovation. Take a look and investigate a few of these, they are a great source of inspiration when you see them with open mind.

Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Initiatives:

3M
BMW Virtual Innovation Agency
Boots Centre for Innovation
Campbell’s Ideas for Innovation
Cisco I-Prize
Clorox Connects
Colgate-Palmolive
Dell IdeaStorm
DSM Licensing
Ericsson
Ford Story
General Electric Ecomagination
General Mills G-WIN
GlaxoSmithKline
Hershey´s Ideaworks
HP Labs Open Innovation Office
IBM Collaboration Jam
Ingenuity Working (by Psion)
Intuit Collaboratory
Intuit Labs
Johnson Controls Open Innovation
Kraft – InnovateWithKraft
LG
Medtronic
Nestlé
Netflix Prize
Nokia
Nokia Beta Labs
P&G Connect+Develop
Pepsi Refresh Project
Reckitt Benckiser
SAP Coil
SAP – Sapiens (In German)
Sara Lee
Shell GameChanger
Starbucks – MyStarbucksIdea
Unilever
Weyerhaeuser
YTL Communications
Xerox


Open Innovation / Crowdsourcing Intermediaries and Platforms:

Big Idea Group
Chaordix
EdisonNation
Exnovate
Hypios
Ideas4All
IdeaConnection
IdeaWicket
InnoCentive
InnoGet
Innoradar
MillionBrains
Napkin Labs
NineSigma
Pharmalicensing
TekScout
Topcoder
Yet2.com
Your Encore


Innovation Management Platforms

BrightIdea
Fellowforce
Hype Innovation
Imaginatik
Inno 360
InventionMachine
Spigit

Annual Open Innovation Conferences:

CoDev – Co-Development and Open Innovation
Open Innovation Conference by Marcus Evans
Open Innovation Summit
TransferSummit