22 January 2010

Tags: Academic | Chesbrough | Open Innovation | User Innovation | von Hippel

If you are working or researching in the area of innovation, you will propably know Eric von Hippel (MIT, Sloan School of Management) and Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley). Both represent a stream in innovation research. Although, the scientific world should pull together, it is quite interesting to find both groups separating themselves from each other. This is true on individual level, but also on university level.

21 January 2010

Tags: Academic | Chesbrough | Doctoral | ESADE | PhD | Research | Vanhaverbeke | Workshop

Last week I participated in a two-day PhD Workshop at ESADE Business School in Barcelona with the two leading researchers on open innovation: Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University, Belgium). Over 20 PhD students working on open innovation or related fields participated in the workshop. Today, I would like to present the current state of research and future research perspectives as discussed at this workshop.

 

03 November 2009

Tags: crowd | grass roots | mass intelligence | swarm | swarm intelligence

Because of current developments we are leaving the firm perspective for this blogpost in order to focus on application of the open innovation paradigm in other areas, like politics. Innovation does not only include product innovation, but also includes service innovation, process innovation and business innovation. Hence, also Government, Non-Government Organizations and Political Parties could successfully apply Open Innovation.

28 September 2009

Tags: Google | Google Wave | Inbound | Open Innovation

When Google Wave was presented at the Google I/O 2009 earlier this year, the feedback of the blogosphere was incredibly positive. The basic idea of Google Wave is to renew online communication. Because the concept of Emails is already 50 years old, it's time for a renewal. Google Wave therefore combines Email, Chatting, collaborative and simultaneous editing (comparable to a Wiki) in one single tool. But not enough, Google Wave is also a protocol and it's (Google style) completely open, which means that Google Wave can be used on Google servers - but also installed on your companies server. And because Google Wave is expandable through APIs and other plug-ins, it's really a role model for Open Innovation.

But today's question is not only how Google Wave uses Open Innovation, but what Google Wave can do for Open Innovation in your company.

21 September 2009

Tags: Academic | Open Innovation | Open Innovation Adoption | Study

Dear Readers,

It has been a while after my last blogpost here. But to my excuse: I was busy analyzing data and writing papers. So, today I’m able to present first results from the open innovation study of the WU Vienna. For this first paper I focused on giving an overview over the current state of open innovation adoption. In the following papers (and following blogposts) I will write more about the model of open innovation adoption and the influencing factors.