Tags: Academic | Chesbrough | Open Innovation | User Innovation | von Hippel

If you are working or researching in the area of innovation, you will propably know Eric von Hippel (MIT, Sloan School of Management) and Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley). Both represent a stream in innovation research. Although, the scientific world should pull together, it is quite interesting to find both groups separating themselves from each other. This is true on individual level, but also on university level.

Tags: Academic | Chesbrough | Doctoral | ESADE | PhD | Research | Vanhaverbeke | Workshop

Last week I participated in a two-day PhD Workshop at ESADE Business School in Barcelona with the two leading researchers on open innovation: Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University, Belgium). Over 20 PhD students working on open innovation or related fields participated in the workshop. Today, I would like to present the current state of research and future research perspectives as discussed at this workshop.

 

Tags: crowd | grass roots | mass intelligence | swarm | swarm intelligence

Because of current developments we are leaving the firm perspective for this blogpost in order to focus on application of the open innovation paradigm in other areas, like politics. Innovation does not only include product innovation, but also includes service innovation, process innovation and business innovation. Hence, also Government, Non-Government Organizations and Political Parties could successfully apply Open Innovation.

Tags: Academic | Open Innovation | Open Innovation Adoption | Study

Dear Readers,

It has been a while after my last blogpost here. But to my excuse: I was busy analyzing data and writing papers. So, today I’m able to present first results from the open innovation study of the WU Vienna. For this first paper I focused on giving an overview over the current state of open innovation adoption. In the following papers (and following blogposts) I will write more about the model of open innovation adoption and the influencing factors.

Tags: Academic | Conference | Culture | Frank Piller | GoldCorp | Idea Competition | ISPIM | Skills

This year's ISPIM conference was held in Vienna from June 22 till June 24. Over 200 papers were presented, with tracks focusing on Open Innovation, Service Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Innovation Policy, or Innovation Networks (to name just a few of them).

Here is a short summary of some presentations: