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Open Innovation Examples
Several good examples were singled out in each cluster of the participants’ countries:

Cluster 1

France
BlaBlaCar an online marketplace for carpooling. Its website and mobile apps connect drivers and
passengers willing to travel together between cities and share the cost of the journey. The company does
not own any vehicles; it is a broker and receives a commission (between 18% and 21%) from every
booking.
Safran Electronics and Defense, part of the Safran group (1st French patent filer in 2021), the group has a
strategy to support employees in patent. The Recognition of employees who have innovated for the
company consists of putting the innovations of different employees in competition with each other and
rewarding those who have achieved the greatest innovations within the company. Plus they also organize
innovation competitions among employees with projects. These employees have the possibility in the
event of victory to see the company invest in their project and to see their employer remunerate them for
the development of their project.
Nickel a alternative banking service open to any natural person aged twelve or over, with no income
requirements and no overdraft or credit possibilities. The service was created in 2014 by the payment
institution Financière des Paiements Électroniques, with electronics engineer Ryad Boulanouar and
financier Hugues Le Bret as co-founders and developers. This banking service is an alternative means of
the bank account.
Cozy Cloud developer of Cozy, a scalable, open source personal cloud platform that simplifies the use of a
personal server. Cozy's core application suite allows users to host, share and synchronize files and images,
as well as keep track of appointments and contacts, and manage multiple email accounts. Third-party
applications available through a dedicated app marketplace can be used to extend Cozy's default
functionality, including applications to read RSS feeds, manage tasks, host a blog, etc.

La Ruche qui dit Oui ! a commercial enterprise born of the collaborative economy. It provides farmers and
food processors with an internet platform to facilitate short circuit sales. This service is intended for the
marketing of agricultural food production and food processing, with the hive manager and Equanum SAS
being the intermediaries interested in the percentage of transactions between food producers and
processors and consumers. The Beehive that gives everyone the means to better feed themselves and
support farmers who cultivate a better world.

Ulule A pioneer in crowdfunding, Ulule supports those who are working for a more diverse, sustainable
and open to all world. A pioneering platform for collaborative financing, Ulule enables creative, innovative
and interdependent projects to raise funds, test ideas, to gather and grow a community.

Italy

APPLE ACADEMY (Software) - Developer Academy of Naples, a "school for developers" that was
established within the former Cirio area of San Giovanni a Teduccio, just outside the Neapolitan

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
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