Large and medium sized companies face ever fiercer competition from global competitors with lower cost structures and faster product development pro-cesses: Innovate or Die.

Many leaders understand this need, but were trained to compete the world that was before and need assistance in unlocking the potential of inviting the public into their development process. Hello Open Innovation.

Open Innovation @Lund University

What we doLU Open facilitates Open Innovation processes, typically as 24 hour non-stop hackathons or 1 week long concept development processes, with focus on value creation. Challenges are put forth by the company and in coop-eration LU Open facilitates execution including planning, recruitment and follow-up of events.

Typically challenges are met by 30-40 students, from multiple faculties and nationalities. All futurists trained in the last techniques and thinking processes with particu-lar interest in the company and area of development.

• Focus on value creation

• Recruitment of students relevant to the challenge given

• Streamlined planning and execution process

BenefitsBut for many companies this is just the beginning. Af-ter working hand in hand and seeing the quality pro-duced, many companies choose to recruit those very same students to continue the concept development or to integrate them in other parts of their companies.

• Get concrete solutions to your challenges

• Recruit the best students

• Understand and perfect Open Innovation in re-lation to your organization

• Engage your employees with the outside world in a safe and prooven environment

• Increase your visibility as an innovative player – to your future employees and to the rest of the world

“On one of the cases we had an external consultant working on in the same time and it was amazing to see that the student developed basically the same idea much cost effective.”

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For more information, contact:

Peter Løvschall

peter.lovschall@luopen.lu.seSE-Mobile: +46 72 527 1984DK-Mobile: +45 20 73 21 00