Collaborate with both External and Internal Partners

Lesson 1 - Collaborate with both External and Internal Partners 

We need to innovate in quite different ways than we did in the past - practicing what has been termed Open Innovation . Innovative efforts must be structured differently and cannot be handled alone by DuPont s R D community. 

We need to collaborate with universities, small startups, government laboratories, other companies, and with other functions across the entire corporation. 

Our early interactions with academia can best be described as philanthropic, providing corporate aid with the hope of hiring more graduates and building relationships with the best universities and professors as consultants. However, academia today can provide opportunities to drive technology into the marketplace more quickly and more cost-effectively. 

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We realize that is critical to practice open innovation with extensive collaboration with both external and internal partners. 

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