Books
The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation
A year ago, the team of Henry Chesbrough, Agnieszka Radziwon, Joel West, and Wim Vanhaverbeke, submitted a #Handbook proposal to #OxfordUniversityPress.
We promised that if it was accepted, within one year we would deliver The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, which would feature contributions from key scholars, practitioners, and themes in #OpenInnovation.
Our goals were very ambitious considering the limited period of time, and managing dozens of academics to hit the schedule was a real challenge.
Today we are proud to report that we made it!
We would like to thank our 136 contributors, 75 reviewers, friends, and colleagues who supported us in developing 57 handbook chapters. We believe that this is work we can all be proud of.
More insights on the handbook coming soon!
Other books
Henry Chesbrough. Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era. Jossey-Bass, January 2011. [Amazon, Barnes & Noble]
Starting from fundamental concepts of value creation, Chesbrough shows how a customer-centric view offers opportunities for innovation and services that are obscured by the traditional value chain model. He shows how greater specialization enables win-win scenarios for both companies and their customers, as firms better understand their customer needs while leveraging economies of scale and scope to meet those needs better than customers themselves can do so.
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Daniel Fasnacht, Open Innovation in the Financial Services. Springer, 2009. [Amazon, Barnes & Noble]
Fasnacht’s discusses open business models in the context of the financial services industry. He elaborates the drivers for strategic change such as increasingly sophisticated clients or demanding shareholders among other trends, including the recent global financial crisis, and explains why the transition from a closed model of operation to open innovation is vital. Various case studies illustrate how to integrate the client into the firm’s innovation process and emphasize the importance of smart client segmentation and a holistic advisory model to serve clients around the globe.
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Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford University Press, 2006. [Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books]
An edited volume of research contributions, all informed by the Open Innovation perspective. Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this R&D can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Chesbrough and his collaborators investigate this phenomenon, linking the practice of innovation to the established body of innovation research, showing what’s new and what’s familiar in the process. Offering theoretical explanations for the use (and limits) of open innovation, the book examines the applicability of the concept, implications for the boundaries of firms, the potential of open innovation to prove successful, and implications for intellectual property policies and practices.
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Henry Chesbrough, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. [Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books]
In Open Business Models, Chesbrough takes readers to the next step–explaining how to make money in an open innovation landscape. He provides a diagnostic instrument enabling you to assess your company’s current business model and explains how to overcome common barriers to creating a more open model. He also offers compelling examples of companies that have developed such models–including Procter & Gamble, IBM, and Air Products. In addition, Chesbrough introduces a new set of players–“innovation intermediaries”–who facilitate companies’ access to external technologies. He explores the impact of stronger IP protection on intermediate markets for innovation and profiles firms (such as Intellectual Ventures and Qualcomm) that center their business models on innovation and IP.
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Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Harvard Business School Press, 2003. [Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books]
In his landmark book Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organizations, business leaders must adopt a new, “open” model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual property (IP) they can bring in, as well as license their unutilized home-grown IP to other organizations.