We collaborated with Marcel Bogers, Associate Professor* at the University of Southern Denmark, to show you an exclusive preview of a lecture on “Managing Open Innovation”, that will air on Danish television later this winter. The lecture is about the “sources for innovation”: how to obtain and make use of external knowledge to commercialize ideas into innovations. The talk focuses on Open Innovation and the role that companies and users play in

The year is almost over and many of us are spending our holidays search our social media accounts for interesting blog posts while watching the snowflakes or, in our case, the raindrops falling. To make this year’s ending even more comfortable for you, we have searched through the web to gather the best Open Innovation posts of this year. Note: we have used search enginges such as Twitter’s Advanced Search, Google

Open innovation: A well-known practice for the fans of football club FC Murcielagos in Mexico, where important decision are being made by the DT-Electronico (Electronic coach). Whenever important decisions are being made, supporters are invited to take part in the decision making process by voting through the web or test messages. Not a bad idea, since apparently the team is playing its best season ever (cf. A Bite Of). Typical

Last autumn Steve Jobs passed away and everybody seems to agree: Steve Jobs was an inspiring and creative leader. His visionary view on technology stood at the basis of several radical innovations, which changed the lives of almost every single one of us. The fact that the iPhone, iTunes and the iPad are probably the three most important “disruptive innovations” of the last decade, surely isn’t a point of discussion.

Open Innovation is a broad and relatively new concept. And while ‘opening up’ your company’s innovation it isn’t easy to a grab a book from the shelf, find the perfect page that addresses your question and start implementing a new model in your organization. No, you are probably disappointed: the current literature is mainly theoretical and offers little useful information to get started immediately. One of my favorite works by