The Seeking Solutions approach combines both open innovation and collaboration at a local scale. Using a web-based broadcast technique, the approach encourages companies to share a problem that they are not able to solve on their own with a community of experts. However, instead of ending the process with solutions proposed virtually – without any collaboration amongst the different solvers when using Innocentive or NineSigma for example – a face-to-face working session is organized to stimulate collaboration and idea exchange around the problems that have been submitted. Seeking Solutions is neither just another open-innovation technique nor just another collaboration approach. It is a new mindset that combines both aspects to achieve local open innovation.
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