Creating employee networks that deliver open innovation by Eoin Whelan, Salvatore Parise, Jasper de Valk & Rick Aalbers is (recently) published in MITSloan Management Review and got my attention via a Twitter message of Jasper de Valk. Employee Networks - An Introduction "A small number of idea scouts and idea connectors are disproportianately influential in producing successful open innovation outcomes. Smart companies make sure they are linked." The leading research question for … [Read more...]
Innovation Management with the Microsoft Project Server 2010
Some time ago I attended the event "Innovatie management op het Microsoft-platform" where I could experience a cool intersection of open innovation and information technology. CXS B.V., a joint venture between Campana & Schott and Corporate Project Solutions, shared a case study at a marketleading pharmaceutical company, where they've build an innovation management solution build up-on Microsoft Project Server 2010. What is open innovation ? Let's start with a quick look at the term … [Read more...]
Exnovate – The Network of Excellence on Open & Collaborative Innovation
In this short article I would like to bring Exnovate, the highly interesting Network of Excellence on Open & Collaborative Innovation, to your attention. Back in 2008 I was fortunate to attend the fith European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship & Open Innovation with Henry Chesbrough & Kenneth Morse, where I first experienced the importance of the “business model”. During the this Masterclass I was able to meet, experience and work with both professor VanHaverbeke and … [Read more...]
European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship & Open Innovation with Henry Chesbrough & Kenneth Morse
A little more than a week ago, from November 24th - November 28th, I attended the much anticipated fifth European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship and Open Innovation organized by Ronald Wolf (Philips) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University). The beautiful main location was the Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne (Netherlands), while some sessions took place at the Philips High Tech Campus (Eindhoven). The two worldclass experts and keynote speakers of the fifth … [Read more...]
OPEN DISCUSSION: IEEE Event on Open Innovation (Veldhoven)
"On Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October 2008 the IEEE Technology Management Councils of the IEEE Benelux and Germany Sections, the IEEE Benelux and Germany GOLD Affinity Groups and the IEEE Student Branch Eindhoven will organize an event on Open Innovation in the NH Conference Centre Koningshof in Veldhoven" [ref01] My attention to this event was drawn by a mailing of Engineering Assosiation KIVI NIRIA, and although IEEE is originally an Electrical Engineering Assisiation, the topic Open … [Read more...]
Open Innovation Masterclass with Professor Frank Piller @ Webster University (Amsterdam)
On 23rd of October 2008, the company called Dutch organized a masterclass on the topic of Open Innovation. Based on the resume and some smart and innovative questions, 25 students were selected to join the masterclass from professor Piller. Luckily I survived the selection process, and I was really excited to see if the professor Piller looked from a different perspective at open innovation theory, since his other specialties are mass customization and customer co-creation. I hoped for a … [Read more...]
