In September 2008, the Bell Mason Group (BMG) organized, by invitation only, for the first time a seminar together with Philips, using its methodology for enterprise venture management. We had also two very successful sessions in October last year. This year again, The Bell Mason Group (BMG) and Philips will give the one-day seminar A Venture Framework and Actionable Methodology for Corporate Business Development, on June 16 as well as on June 17, 2010 in Eindhoven.

The seminar will be led by Heidi Mason, co-founder of The Bell-Mason Group and leading expert in venturing. She is also the co-author of The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation. She will be assisted by Corina Kuiper, Senior Director New Business Development for Philips and Fellow of the Bell Mason Group.

Using the Bell Mason Framework, participants will learn how to improve the success of their new business development initiatives. The program is highly participatory, collaborative and interactive – referred to as ‘action learning’, using real cases, and therefore allowing the participants to walk in the shoes of early investors and core team members. Additionally, seminar attendees will gain Web access to a suite of BMG tools and templates.

In addition, there will be a Philips evening networking event on corporate venturing on June 16, 2010. During this the evening event two key speakers will present their view on the challenges, critical success factors and lessons learned in corporate business development, including real live examples.

If you are involved in the practice and management of corporate incubation, corporate venture investing, and/or new business development in new and adjacent markets to augment your existing product/service lines, this seminar and evening event is well suited for you.  Due to the highly dynamic nature of the seminars, there will be no more 24 participants in each class, so we encourage you to let is now soon whether you are interested in attending. The seminar fee will be €750,00. The participants of the seminars will also be invited to attend the evening event on June 16th without the additional charge of €250,00 .

More information can be found on http://bellmason.cisevents.hightechcampus.nl

EURAM 2007: 16-19 May 2007

From 16 to 19 May 2007, the Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Management was held in Paris, France. During this meeting, participants could choose between two tracks on Open Innovation: Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities (by Linus Dahlanders, Lars Fredriksen, and Francesco Rullani) and Open Innovation (by Oliver Gassmann, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Ellen Enkel and Vareska van de Vrande). In the last track, 14 papers were selected for presentation.

The first day started with an overview session, indicating the current  status of the field and presenting a number of challenges faced by open innovation researchers. Presentations from Ellen Enkel and Wim Vanhaverbeke stressed the importance of management-related issues in the implementation of open innovation. Marcus Becker furthermore indicated the difficulties of implementing open innovation when developing complex products, whereas Mikko Ahonen stressed the importance of collective creativity as a driver for innovation.

The second session, titled “External Knowledge Sourcing”, presented different viewpoints on the role of external acquisition of knowledge. The role of users (by Francois Scheid) , universities (by Emilio Bellini), and R&D alliances (Valentina Morandi) were discussed, followed by a detailed account from Felipe Monteiro on the process through which this external knowledge is accessed.

The third session kicked off with a keynote speech by Julian Birkinshaw. During this speech, Julian presented a framework for open innovation, showing a number of dimensions of open innovation that are crucial to consider when establishing a “theory” of open innovation. Markus Perkmann and Elena Sousa-Ginel once more stressed the particular role played by universities, when companies seek to acquire external knowledge.

The last session left us with many questions that are still open for discussion. To what extent is it really beneficial for companies to share knowledge, and how important is the protection of internally developed knowledge (by Michael Mol)? What is the role of different stakeholders, such as customers, employees, external stakeholders, and knowledge management (by Silvia Ayuso)? How do different types of software professionals value open innovation in Open Source settings (by Oliver Alexy)? And finally, what can we say about cost efficiency and spilover effects as determinants for open innovation (by Benjamin Chiao)?

To conclude, the different papers presented in the Open Innovation track have further stumlated the debate on open innovation research, but has also raised a large number of questions that are still to be answered!

For an overview of the program and to download presentations of the papers, click here. Full papers can be downloaded from the EIASM-website.

Innovation no longer comes from within a company but through collaborative ‘open’ efforts and partnership. This three day course will give you the understanding, knowledge, and practical sills for applying open innovation in your organisation. You will get chance to explore how to work more effectively with suppliers and customers to speed up the innovation process and make it more reliable, more effective and less costly.

Who should attend:
–          Managers and specialists involved in innovation projects
–          Those who leads strategic innovation in organisations
–          Professionals involved in building relationships with suppliers
–          Managers in marketing communication

Date: 28 – 30 May, 2009

More information: http://www.rsm.nl/home/execed/open_enrolment_programmes/open_innovation

Every year study association Asset | TOP-DOWN organises the Strategic Symposium. The Strategic Symposium 2009 will take place on Thursday, October 22nd 2009 in the auditorium of Tilburg University. This year’s topic will be: ‘Open Innovation’.

For this day we are inviting students, company visitors and scientists alike. The day will consist of five lectures and an optional workshop for company visitors. The keynote speakers are Robert Kirschbaum (Vice President Innovation at DSM), Cees Admiraal (Director Acquisitions at High Tech Campus Eindhoven), Wouter van Schelt (Senior Consultant Innovation at Rijkswaterstaat), Dirk Kronemeijer (Vice President Innovation at KLM/Air France), and Andrew Gaule (CEO of H-I Network).

These keynote speakers will enlighten the visitors with their knowledge and experience with Open Innovation. Want to learn more? Click here to register today for the Strategic Symposium 2009!

In May 2008 a new program in the TUM Business School will start. The Executive Program in Innovation & Business Creation offers innovation managers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to join project teams and to work on the development of their new business. At the same time, participants will earn an Executive MBA degree: a sound theoretical foundation in how to innovate and build real businesses. This unique combination of entrepreneurial practice and excellent academic education is guaranteed by the joined forces of the three program partners: the TUM Business School, the HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and UnternehmerTUM, the centre for entrepreneurship at the Technische Universität München.

For more info visit http://www.innovationprogram.com/

From November 8-14, 2007, the third European course on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation will take place at Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne in the Netherlands. This course is led by Henry Chesbrough, Kenneth Morse and Wim Vanhaverbeke.

The course provides insights into the key aspects of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and corporate venturing:

• How to organize and leverage the corporate setting to start and grow new, significant, globally competitive businesses
• How to generate successful (corporate) start-ups in an Open Innovation setting
• Searching for complementarity: the role of partners
• The role of incubators, spin-ins, spin-outs, and corporate venture capital
• How to use new business development and venturing as a tool in strategy making processes and corporate transformations

For more information on this event and how to register, please follow this link.