The “godfather” of the open innovation approach, Prof. Henry W. Chesbrough, made companies an offer that they could not refuse: fling the doors of your R&D centers wide open to become more competitive ...

As part of Booz & Company’s annual study of the innovation strategies of the world’s highest-spending companies on R&D, the firm conducted a survey that asked senior innovation executives to vote for ...

Writing in the Financial Times, Louise Lucas discusses how "open innovation"--the concept of corporations partnering with outside engineers and designers to develop new products-- has evolved since ...

There are few organizations that don’t wish to innovate, but whilst most aspire to develop creative new products, services and processes, the evidence is mixed as to their ability to do so ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The idea of open innovation practices is embraced by U.S. and European companies but not always utilized strategically, according to a new joint study conducted by Purdue ...

A new mode of innovation is emerging that blurs the lines between universities, industry, governments and communities. It exploits disruptive technologies — such as cloud computing, the Internet of ...

At Managing IP’s India IP and Innovation Forum last week, in-house counsel discussed why large companies are increasingly adopting open innovation systems The fundamental question is what constitutes ...

Anywhere you see conversations about innovation there is usually some hat tipping to open innovation and its role in product development. Though a majority of organizations use some form of open ...

Just under 43% of you expect get either breakthrough innovations or significant new market opportunities through open innovation. Fully one third of respondents anticipate that the results of open ...

Merck and the Heritage Provider Network forge a new kind of relationship, with the goals of spawning innovation in healthcare delivery and of providing an outline for future collaborations between ...

1 See Satish Nambisan, “Platforms for Collaboration,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 7, no. 3, 2009, and John Kania and Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact ...