Tags: Human characteristics | influencing variables | Open Innovation Adoption | Skills

The evaluation of influencing variables on open innovation adoption is the major focus of my research work on open innovation. I define three different categories of variables:

• The market side, which could be something like industry, industry hostility, uncertainty in the industry and others.
• The organisational side, which includes everything depend on the company. For instance strategic breadth, competitive advantage, economies of scale, firm size, R&D intensity and others.
• And finally, the human side which includes several characteristics of the company executives (decision makers who have an influence on formulation of the R&D strategy)

Today, I will explain which human characteristics are needed for a company adopting open innovation.

Tags: Australia | Initiative | Outbound | Patent

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Lemelson Foundation is sponsoring another project with open innovation focus: "The Initiative for Open Innovation" (IOI) in Australia.

If we look at the current status of Open Innovation (from a practical viewpoint) we see a lot of company initiatives or independend open innovation communities. These are usually focussed on the inbound process of open innovation.

But initiatives with focus on the outbound process, especially from an independent organisation, are lacking. The "Initiative for Open Innovation" is one of those few.

Tags: Chesbrough | Closed innovation | Definition | Open Innovation

In a recent blogpost, Nico Macdonald emphazies that Chesbrough is painting a black and white picture, by contrasting the old, closed innovation model with the new, open innovation model.

He uses some examples from the Palo Alto region, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to state that "In reality, the closed innovation model has never really existed...". According to Nico, companies have used technology insourcing and outsourcing already 30 years ago. Hence, Open Innovation is not a new phenomenon. And even if open innovation exists now, this doesn't necessarily mean that closed innovation existed.

Tags: Conference

Another Open Innovation conference is coming up in June 09:

The 7th Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop will be held in Hamburg from June 3rd till 5th, 2009. The workshop is organized by Cornelius Herstatt, Christian Lüthje, Christina Raasch, and Christoph Stockstrom. Herstatt and Lüthje are already known in the academic community for their academic work on User Innovations (Lüthje et al. 2002, Lüthje Herstatt 2004, Lüthje Herstatt von Hippel 2005).

Although there is still no workshop program, I have already registered.