Open Innovation
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Open Innovation is the corporate development of lower-cost, higher-quality ideas from the best sources in the world by collaborating with outsiders—including customers, vendors and even competitors. Milcord practices open innovation by collaborating with university research labs, systems integrators, and venture backed technology startup companies to develop solutions for various Federal agencies.
Introduction
- Watch BBC interview with Don Tapscott co-author of Wikinomics
- Listen to NPR interview with Don Topscott co-author of Wikinomics
- Watch interview with Henry Chesbrough author of Open Innovation
Blogs
- innovation.net Mike Docherty gives practical advice on implementing open innovation business models.
- openeur blogs on topics intersecting open innovation and entrepreneurship.
- more blogs ...
Books
- Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. D., Wikinomics; How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio Pub. Co., 2007. Popularization of open innovation for the business community by Don Tapscott, author of The Digital Economy and his colleague.
- Chesbrough, H., Vanhaverbeke W. and West,J. editors, Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm Oxford University Press, 2006. A collection of papers on firms and organizations practicing Open Innovation and value networks.
- Von Hippel, E., Democratizing Innovation, MIT Press, 2005. Eric Von Hippel was the first researcher advocating the importance of lead users in designing products, which was generalized by Henry Chesbrough in Open Innovation.
- more books ...
Commercial Initiatives
- Amazon Mechanical Turk enables companies to use crowdsourcing for quick tasks that require human intelligence in exchange for micropayments.
- Eclipse is IBM's open source development platform. Listen to npr interview on open innovation driving IBM's Blue Gene.
- Open IT Works promotes sharing of best practices, shared problem solving, collaboration on a project, product and vendor reviews.
- more commercial initiatives ...
Government Initiatives
- The MIT Technology Review article discusses TIGR (Tactical Ground Reporting System) developed by DARPA and fielded by the 1st Cavalry.
- The Peer to Patent Project opens the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examination process to the public.
- Listen to Jon Udell's interview with Lewis Shepherd Senior Technical Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Intellipedia.
- more government initiatives ...
Events
- 2008 National SBIR Conference to be held on Nov. 12-14 in Hartford, CT will feature Open Innovation. Proctor and Gamble, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and General Electric will discuss how they work with small innovative companies to develop new products and new business.
- PDMA & IIR's Annual Front End of Innovation Conference held this year in Boston on May 20-21, 2008 had a number of interesting presentations on workspace design for increased innovation. For instance, Hill Holiday Hill reported its redesign of its offices in Boston to provide communal workplaces.
- CoDev 2008 is the Seventh Annual PDMA Conference on Co-Development focusing on Open Innovation.
- 2nd Annual Open Innovation brings together executives charged with navigating the innovative process from both the science and business sectors of the innovation enterprise.
Innovation Marketplace
- InnoCentive brings together innovation seekers and problem solvers using a prize structure.
- NineSigma is an innovation outsourcing firm serving Fortune 500 firms.
- yet2com is an online marketplace for technology licensing and transfer.
- more open innovation companies ...
Academic Research
- Center for Open Innovation at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business conducts research in open innovation and open business models.
- MIT Center for Collective Intelligence focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach collaboration with researchers from the MIT Sloan School of Management, CSAIL, Media Lab and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
- more academic research ...
