Recently, an article about the effect of serious games on teaching and learning the essentials of (open) innovation and innovation management has been published on the ssrn. The authors have researched a group of students from different nationalities playing a game in the context of an education course. By playing the game, they had the following goals: Creating a shared experience of social dynamics and the paradox of co-opetition for

One of my favorite reads of the last couple of years is the work “Creative Leadership: Skills that drive innovation”, written by Puccio, Mance and Murdock. They argue that by making use of the right thinking skills an individual should be able to think outside their ‘area of familiarity’. The origin of radical innovation begins outside this so-called zone of comfort. By making use of the right converging techniques the

A couple of weeks ago, I had to give a presentation about innovation management at the Frismakers Festival in the Netherlands. The presentation was about innovation management at Avans University, where I’m employed as a lecturer on this topic. The presentation follows a structured number of steps: firstly, I had to jump into the subject: the innovation management game, a game about innovation management, a company that is now commercially

Recent decades have been the years of outsourcing. Not only did companies outsource traditional cheap production towards more interesting markets, companies also outsourced most of their ICT and knowledge-based services towards cheaper countries. During recent years, many organisation have also outsourced their innovation departments and knowledge-intensive research and development branches towards countries in the Far East and Brazil. No longer does the Europe have the competitive advantage of being an

In the latest issue of IPSIM, an interesting article article about Open Innovation 2.0 has been published. What is Open Innovation 2.0, according to the author? “A key distinguishing attribute of Open Innovation 2.0 is focus on adoption. Michael Schrage of MIT has written “Innovation is not innovators innovating, it is customers adopting”. While much of the focus of past innovation studies and research is on innovation creation, very often