Abstract:

Traditional model of Innovation Exploitation has restricted the speed and quality of originality, which has been overtaken by the needs of innovative products and services on Digital Information Resource (DIR). The appearance of cloud environment, however, provides a new platform for the open innovation of DIR Enterprises, leading to the born of Rapid Innovation Factory based on Cloud-Environment. In this paper we first analyze the innovative community, driving mechanism and knowledge diffusion which is based on the traditional Innovation Exploitation model for DIR Enterprises. Then we discuss the challenges traditional model encounters under the new external environment. After that, we propose a cloud-based environment of rapid innovation factory pattern combined with the case of IBM. Eventually, we operate the further analysis of the conversion of DIR Innovation Exploitation Model from traditional one to the Rapid Innovation Factory.

Key words: Rapid innovation, Cloud computing, Cloud innovation, Open innovation, DIR enterprises