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Open Innovation
March 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: With the diffusion of the open-innovation paradigm, more companies are selling their technological knowledge, disembodied from physical artifacts, to other organizations in an attempt to...
January 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The best companies often work closely with their customers to uncover needs and wants that can be translated into new or improved product or service offerings. The lead-user research method...
January 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Evidence from academic studies and national-level policy reports suggests that university industry relationships are now widely practiced in many countries and increasing in importance...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Forget Linux, Netflix, DARPA, and the X Prizes. Deliberate, managed open innovation goes back 300 years. At that time the determination of longitude at sea was both vitally important and...
July 01, 2012
When Henry Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation†in 2003, Face-book and LinkedIn were in their infancies. There was no Twitter or Pinterest or Digg. InnoCentive was a young startup, just two...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Implementing open innovation approaches in a corporation that traditionally has relied on a closed innovation model will always be challenging. This paper describes our attempt to create an...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: This article explores General Electric's experience with open collaboration as part of its research and development efforts in markets adjacent to the company’s core businesses. In recent...
July 01, 2012
It may seem odd to do a retrospective issue on a subject whose arrival on the scene is as recent as open innovation, but since the concept was ï¬rst named and studied by Henry Chesbrough, it has taken...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: The term “open innovation†was introduced in my 2003 book, which outlined a new model for industrial in-novation. Since that time, the concept has been adopted by hundreds of academic...
May 01, 2012
While working to reengineer Eli Lilly’s R&D strategy for the post-blockbuster pharma market, Alph Bingham codeveloped and patented a model for an open marketplace for ideas. That idea, supported...
May 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Along with other Web 2.0 market intelligence tools, online idea competitions can provide essential input for decision making in the early phases of product innovation. However, in order to...
May 01, 2012
An innovation capitalist can help companies manage the organizational and managerial challenges inherent in sourcing innovation externally. Innovation capitalists are innovation intermediaries; they...
May 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: While tools have been developed to assist ï¬rms’ decision making for bringing known products and components into the supply chain, fewer tools are available to guide the acquisition of...
What are the most significant barriers to expanding your open innovation initiatives? I am interested in learning about the most significant challenge your organization faces in expanding open...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...