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Opening Innovation to Others Key to Success
In her Contra Costa Times article, Financial Columnist Tapan Munroe discusses how open innovation is a strategy for U.S. businesses to be more competitive as our economy shifts increasingly to services and our manufacturing moves to lower-cost countries. Professor Henry Chesbrough is quoted in the article and explains: “To escape the commodity trap
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From Products to Services: How Medellín, Colombia is Overcoming the Commodity Trap
I was just reminded of the importance of thinking of a product business as a service. I am just returning from an event in Medellín, Colombia, along with Ken Morse and Carter Williams, formerly from MIT and Boeing, respectively. There, the three of us discussed innovation, with the goal of helping
Video: Henry Chesbrough Rethinks the Concept of Open Innovation
In his new book, “Open Services Innovation,” Professor Henry Chesbrough rethinks the concept of open innovation to tackle a new economy. Chesbrough offers the tools to apply service-focused
Update: Twitter Chat on Open Services Innovation with Henry Chesbrough and Stefan Lindegaard
UPDATE: To read this conversation, please visit the #15inno hashtag and read Nannette Stangle-Castor’s summary on her Fuentek Intellectual Property Management Blog. —- On Monday, March
To Beat Foreign Copycats, Sell Services
In his Bloomberg Businessweek article, Vivek Wadhwa discusses the benefits to being a service business and how small businesses can get to know customers better, satisfy them more and keep them longer. Click
Vijay Vaitheeswaran of “The Economist” Discusses Open Services Innovation
In the audio clip included below, The Economist Healthcare Correspondent Vijay Vaitheeswaran discusses Professor Henry Chesbrough’s new book Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business
How Innovation Changed While Nokia Wasn’t Looking: Henry Chesbrough Video Interview
Professor Henry Chesbrough speaks with Gary Hamel,Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Director of the Management Lab. This interview originally appeared on the MIX
The Future of How We Consume Things
We often look at innovation in terms of the new products and technologies that come to market. We don’t often think about how we consume these new offerings. But that’s what is far more important. Our lives are shaped by how we interact with the “things” or “stuff”
Innovators Must Co-create with Customers
Excerpted with permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., from Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era by Henry Chesbrough. Copyright (c) 2011 by
Economic Growth Requires the Viagra of Local Leadership
In a recent article on the Guardian’s website, David Marlow, former chief executive at Doncaster metropolitan borough council and director of Third Life Economics, explores how political and economic developments provide possible models and ideas for Local Economic Partnerships and their leaders. Marlow