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Case #5 – Exploring the Future through Open Innovation at Intel

Case #5 – Exploring the Future through Open Innovation at Intel

By • on July 21, 2011

As promised in a recent posting, I will be continuing my exploration of cases that show how firms organize their open innovation activities. Last time, I looked at Cisco and how it used acquisitions

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Case #4 – Open Innovation through Acquisition at Cisco

Case #4 – Open Innovation through Acquisition at Cisco

By • on June 24, 2011

Having looked at a somewhat “extreme” approach to open innovation in my last posting, I return to a more classical one this time: open innovation through acquisitions. This is a crucial topic for research and practice,

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Case #3 – Threadless: The Business of Community

Case #3 – Threadless: The Business of Community

By • on May 31, 2011

A question that I get asked a lot in classes around open innovation is how to make money from being open. For example, no one would disagree that a large user community is a nice-to-have, but how can you best turn it into a profitable source of innovation? The multimedia case Threadless:

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Case #2 – IBM going ‘open’

Case #2 – IBM going ‘open’

By • on May 9, 2011

In my view, one of the most important questions in the space of open innovation is how closed companies can make the transition to being open. One of my favorite cases on this topic is Baldwin, O’Mahony, and Quinn’s IBM and Linux (HBS-Case 9-903-083). As the title suggests, this case describes events

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Case #1 – Open and Closed Innovation at Merck

Case #1 – Open and Closed Innovation at Merck

By • on April 27, 2011

When teaching about open innovation, I found it much easier to start a clear description of what closed innovation is, and why firms may decide to be closed even when presented with a potentially viable opportunity to open up. With that knowledge in mind, students (in subsequent classes) found it much

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Welcome to the OpenInnovation.net Teaching Section

Welcome to the OpenInnovation.net Teaching Section

By • on April 11, 2011

We are very happy to launch the new teaching section on OpenInnovation.net with this article. Why a teaching section on open innovation you may ask? Quite simply to support people in teaching positions in including open innovation into their courses! Business practice increasingly relies on open, distributed,

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Everything You Need to Know About Open Innovation

Everything You Need to Know About Open Innovation

By • on March 21, 2011

Open innovation is a concept I originated that falls directly in that gap between business  and academe.  Conceptually, it is a more distributed, more participatory, more decentralized approach to innovation, based on the observed fact that useful knowledge today is widely distributed, and no company,

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