Recently, under the guidance of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Pudong New Area**, and Shanghai Office for Promoting the Construction of Science and Technology Innovation, the "2023 Global Open Innovation Summit Forum" initiated by Plug and Play China and the Technology Innovation Research Center of Tsinghua University was held in Shanghai, and the 2023 Global Top 100 Open Innovation Enterprises List was released for the first time on the spotFor startups, the "POC50 - Top 50 Startups with the Most Proof of Concept Capabilities" was selected to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the concept of "open innovation" and called on more enterprises to explore open innovation.
Among them, the "Blue Whale 50 Global Large Enterprises Open Innovation Top 50 List" selected 50 outstanding enterprises from 14 fields such as home appliance and electronic product manufacturing, chemistry and engineering, medical and health care, communication services, advanced manufacturing, automobiles and parts, etc., as a representative of the home appliance and electronic product manufacturing industry, Haier was successfully selected into the first "Blue Whale 50 Global Large Enterprises Open Innovation Top 50 List".
How can large enterprises maintain the vitality of scientific and technological innovation?From the perspective of the development law of global enterprises, the scale and innovation vitality of enterprises have always been like "fish and bear's paws", and it is difficult to have both. Professor Chen Jin, Director of the Technology Innovation Research Center of Tsinghua University, said in his speech at the conference that the Haier HOPE platform can be regarded as a model of open innovation for Chinese enterprises. The positive cases of continuous innovation of large enterprises such as Haier have brought inspiration to solve this global problem.
Solve the problem!Open innovation helps large enterprises maintain the vitality of scientific research.
As the public information of the list says, the "blue whale" is the largest cetacean, the largest animal in existence, and the most magical and unique ecosystem in the marine world. In the context of the digital era, paying attention to the innovation and entrepreneurship practices of "Blue Whale" enterprises will usher in new opportunities for the overall transformation of the industry.
As a company selected for the list, Haier began to explore open innovation very early, and in 2009 built Haier's open innovation platform - HOPE (Haier Open Partnership Ecosystem), after years of development, Haier has established a "10+N" covering the world's major technology highlands with the support of the HOPE platform Open innovation resource network, provide solutions to the company's technical problems and product development, and find new industry opportunities for investment and incubation.
Today, the open innovation exploration with the HOPE platform as the main body is continuing to inject innovation resources and vitality into Haier.
It is understood that the HOPE platform successfully docks hundreds of innovative technologies every year, helping Haier's R&D team solve many technical problems in the industry and create a number of disruptive innovative products, such as oxygen-controlled fresh-keeping refrigerators, "zero noise and zero vibration" wine cabinets, no-clean washing machines, air conditioners that will not get "air conditioning diseases", zero carbon monoxide carbon emission gas water heaters, anti-dry burning gas stoves, etc. In Haier, the HOPE platform supports more than 60 new products launched every year, and the annual innovation added value exceeds 2 billion.
The famous "Joy's Law" in management believes that the smartest people are always outside the company, and no matter how big the company is, it is impossible to cover the smartest people in the world. In the way of accelerating independent innovation through open innovation, Haier has more than 200 original technologies, which have been imitated and followed up by the industry, driving the technological evolution of the industry. Taking the field of home appliances as an example, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's home appliance industry selected 10 original technologies, and Haier occupied 6 seats.
Momentum!Open innovation helps small and medium-sized enterprises to integrate and develop.
In addition to Haier, HOPE's open innovation exploration has also promoted the industrial transformation of scientific research achievements in universities, accelerated the growth of start-ups, and created more long-term ecological benefits and social value in the integration of large and medium-sized enterprises to achieve high-quality development.
The micro-nano sensing team of USTC has developed the first batch of freshness sensors in the industry, but due to the actual conditions, the efficiency, duration, stability and other issues have not reached the standards of industrialization, so few people know about them. In May 2021, the world's first electronic nose technology was launched on 9 models of Casarte refrigerators, creating a popular product with annual sales of 70,000 units.
Shenzhen Biosen Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is an air purification service provider in the field of rail transit, and its sanitize equipment is widely used in subways, high-speed railways and large venues, etc., with a large single amount but a small number, which affects the further development of enterprises. After more than two years of exploration and polishing by Biosen and Haier's scientific research team, the optical plasma air sanitizing technology from the rail transit field was applied to the household disinfection cabinet industry for the first time, not only protecting the healthy life of users during the epidemic, but also opening up a new growth point for Biosen.
In the era of the Internet of Things, there are many user needs, and the changes are fast, and the research and development of a single enterprise can not quickly meet the needs of users, the only way is to build a "tropical rainforest" of scientific and technological innovation. Through the open innovation of the HOPE platform, Haier has linked more than 250,000 experts and more than 1 million ecosystem parties around the world to co-create, continuously generating new scenarios and technologies, meeting the needs of users while driving more ecological enterprises to develop momentum.
to form an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness", the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out the direction for more enterprises to explore open innovation. Typical enterprises such as Haier, which have been rigorously evaluated by innovation leaders such as Henry Chesaburff and Professor Chen Jin, the father of open innovation, will continue to move forward firmly in the field of open innovation, help build a scientific and technological power, and achieve a win-win situation between corporate value and social value.