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Fear of Looking Foolish
The HAL website posted an overview of a presentation Henry Chesbrough and Sea Matilda Bez gave at the World Open Innovation Conference in Rome this past December. The authors note that managers are myopic in their evaluation of technology; why don’t managers search for alternative business models for technologies that do not fit the current one, instead
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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation
An article on the Forbes website noted that the need for greater dissemination of technology was recently promoted by a report from MIT’s task force on the work for the future. This is predominantly because the majority of investment in new technology is done by a relatively small number of large companies.
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From Collaborative Community to Competitive Market
The Wiley Online Library posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and Thomas Kohler which noted that crowdsourcing presents new opportunities to generate social innovation. However, many crowdsourcing social innovation initiatives struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms.
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The Advance of Open Innovation
The SAP website posted an interview with Henry Chesbrough in which he outlined why firms need to experiment with new business models within and across company boundaries. He noted that companies get much more sustainable value if they focus on innovating the business models of their external collaborators.
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UC Berkeley Has New Innovation Hub
The Daily Cal reported that a new innovation hub providing technical and financial support to startups will be coming to campus after a recent partnership between UC institutes and Enel, a multinational power company. Henry Chesbrough, a professor at the Haas School of Business and executive director
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Chesbrough: “An Exciting Time for OI in the Energy Sector”
The InnoEnergy website posted an interview with Henry Chesbrough, “the father of open innovation,” in which he discussed how open innovation applies to the energy industry. While the energy industry in general has a conservative and monopolistic culture, Prof. Chesbrough argues that the
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Chesbrough One of the Biggest Star Faculty Members at Cal
Quora, an internet website that aggregates answers to questions, posted that Henry Chesbrough, the originator of Open Innovation, has been selected as one of “the biggest star faculty members at University of California at Berkeley.”
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Striving for Innovation Success in the 21st Century
The MIT Technology Review website posted an article by Henry Chesbrough in which he summarizes and updates his work on open innovation. “Open innovation assumes that companies can, and should, use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and pursue internal and external paths to market, as they
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Striving for Innovation Success in the 21st Century
In an article on the MIT Technology Review website Henry Chesbrough wrote that open innovation is “the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand the markets for external use of innovation. It’s a model for industrial innovation that I originated
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Call for Papers 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference
The WOIC website announced a call for papers for the 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference, the first to take place in Europe. The conference, initiated by the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and hosted by ESADE, will take place Barcelona, Spain Dec. 15-16. As in the first two WOICs,
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