Open innovation: the new imperative ... Open Innovation Forum. Open Innovation: Chesbrough promotes green OI in London. My friend David Wood (the only executive at Symbian from beginning to end) has been blogging (and tweeting) all week at the FT Innovation 2009 conference. One of the guest speakers was Henry Chesbrough, speaking on the topic “Open Innovation: Can it save the world?” Not surprisingly, the first half of the talk was about open innovation and the second half about applying the principles of OI to green technologies.
In his blog article, David reports on both halves. The first half makes a nice summary of the whole open innovation thesis, as presented in the original 2003 Open Innovation book. The second half offers suggestions of how open innovation is being used to accelerate progress in green technologies, such as the GreenXchange project hosted by Science Commons (with funding from Nike and BestBuy). The model seems to fit what Scott Gallagher & I (in our 2006 article) call “pooled R&D” in the context of Eclipse and other firm-sponsored open source projects. The Era of Open Innovation - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review. Recent publicdata Bookmarks on Delicious. Google to Announce Venture Fund.
Micro Persuasion: Five Digital Trends to Watch for 2009. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. As part of this effort, I spend a lot of time with not only the social platforms but journalists and media execs. Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format. It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report.
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