Dissemination : O3C Business Models. Open Innovation - Links. Portals www.openinnovation.net Homepage of open innovation researchers worldwide. www.openinnovators.net Portal concerning Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing. www.openinnovatie.nl Open Innovation portal for the Netherlands & Belgium. userinnovation.mit.edu This website contains a convenient repository for papers on topics related to innovation by users.
Free Open Source Research Community For many years free/open source software has been building momentum. OpenInnovators.de A German online community on open innovation. Research institute Eindhoven Centre of Innovation Studies (E.C.I.S.) Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences, University Utrecht, The Netherlands The Dutch Knowledge network on System Innovations (KSI) comprises over 60 researchers from a dozen universities and research institutes with specific knowledge and expertise of transitions and system innovations.
Competence centre for Open Innovation, St. Leuven Inc. Companies/Europ Unilever Technology Ventures DSM Venturing Dell. The next step in open innovation - McKinsey Quarterly - Operatio. For most companies, innovation is a proprietary activity conducted largely inside the organization in a series of closely managed steps. Over the last decade, however, a few consumer product, fashion, and technology businesses have been opening up the product-development process to new ideas hatched outside their walls—from suppliers, independent inventors, and university labs. Executives in a number of companies are now considering the next step in this trend toward more open innovation. For one thing, they are looking at ways to delegate more of the management of innovation to networks of suppliers and independent specialists that interact with each other to cocreate products and services. They also hope to get their customers into the act.
This is the model of innovation as a convergence of like-minded parties. Distributed cocreation is too new for us to draw definitive conclusions about whether and how companies should implement it. The new face of innovation Hurdles ahead Exhibit. Toolkits for User Innovation. Toolkits for user innovation allow manufacturers to " abandon their attempts to understand user needs in detail in favor of transferring need-related aspects of product and service development to users along with an appropriate toolkit". User toolkits are based on the idea that manufacturers possess the knowledge of the solution possibilities, while the users possess the knowledge about needs.
This information is sticky and can therefore not be transferred easily between the user and the manufacturer. User toolkits can be used in a variety of settings, and has been shown to be applicable in systems ranging from production of electronic circuitry to Apache security software (Franke & Von Hippel, 2003). Content of a toolkit[edit] The process as described by von Hippel has five criteria:[1] Learning by trial-and-errorAn appropriate solution space.A user-friendly toolkitCommonly used modulesResult easily created by user Learning by trial-and-error[edit] An appropriate solution space[edit]