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The App Economy and Open Services Innovation
An article on the National Review website argues that the most successful firms manage to create open platforms that other firms can build on — instead of relying solely on in-house talent, you can draw on the entrepreneurial energy of thousands and potentially millions of people you’d never dream of hiring, who will dream up new ways of deploying
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At the Court of King Henry
The Deloittereview.com website has published an interview with Henry Chesbrough, originator of the open innovation concept, on all things open innovation and the challenges of sustaining the open business model. Chesbrough discuses the genesis of the OI concept, the importance of business models, the
Open Services Innovation
In his blog, Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses some of the issues raised in Henry Chesbrough’s book, Open Services Innovation. He notes that Chesbrough’s key argument for the importance of services innovation is the serious competitive challenge
First Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission
The website of the European Commission has announced its first Innovation Convention to be held Dec. 5-6 in Brussels. The conference will bring together world leading experts in research and innovation to share their views on building a global innovation economy. Research and innovation are the
Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation Conference
The Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation Conference will be held in San Francisco Nov. 16-19 the conference website reports. Open Innovation has developed far beyond the state of a niche-method practiced only by a selective few entrepreneurs. With the evolution of the internet to “Web
Apple’s Contributions to Open Innovation
In a post on the site Crowdsourcing.org, Joel West discusses Apple’s Contributions to Open Innovation. Some recent coverage of Steve Jobs legacy and Apple’s record focuses on the Macintosh’s proprietary operating system and its mixed record on open architecture. However, Apple under
The Evolution of Open Innovation: An Interview with Henry Chesbrough
In this article on the TMCNet site, Henry Chesbrough discusses the evolution of open innovation, what it takes to succeed at open innovation, where it might not gain traction, and how it compares with open-source innovation models. Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” with the publication
Open Services Innovation: Road Runner Sports
The Plantescompany blog reports that Road Runner Sports offers a new twist on guru advice – a computerized assessment based on a video of the shopper running on a treadmill, a pad measuring where the runner places the weight of his feet and runner-provided information. Road Runner Sports turns
Services Innovation Essential for Advanced Economies
“Service innovation is essential for advanced economies as more than 70% of their GDP is generated by services” was the thrust of the keynote speech given by Professor Jos Lemmink, the Oce website reports. Lemmink spoke at a symposium marking the opening of the Open Innovation Center in
Letting Your Customers Design Your Products
The Inc. website reports that when Brazil’s most popular automaker, Fiat, sought a design for its 2009 concept vehicle, the Fiat Mio, rather than turning inward to its core team of designers and engineers to come up with the new look, the company turned outward—and let the world decide how