The Bluenove

Founded in 2008, bluenove became the French leader in Open Innovation consulting. With a full range of services including discovery of innovative partners, the launch and animation of innovation communities, organization of competitions for internal and external ideas, and Open Data strategy, bluenove is advising large companies (Michelin, Microsoft, Orange, Natura Brazil, Kering, SNCF, RATP, Unibail Rodamco, Galeries Lafayette, Pernod Ricard, SUEZ Environnement, Humanis, Butagaz, etc.) and small and medium enterprises (Poult, etc.) in the definition and implementation of their open and collaborative innovation strategy. The founder of bluenove Group, Martin Duval, published the first French book on Open Innovation Management in 2011 with Free Press. Imagination for People, founded in 2011 by Frank Escoubès, is a multilingual collaborative platform dedicated to social innovation. Today it unites a global community from 75 countries. Structured as a social business, Imagination for People developed its business activities through the company Clouds, in charge of software development and the methodology behind Assembl. Assembl was developed as part of an international consortium including MIT (Mass, USA) and the Open University (UK).