The Future of Open Innovation

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Notes

¹Personal conversation between Mike Helser, Director, GTECH Disruptive Technology, General Mills, and Henry Chesbrough, October 15, 2014.

²Jim Euchner (2010) usefully distinguishes open innovation from what he calls “open source innovation,” with the latter corresponding to von Hippel’s treatment of the concept.

³The team that ran the Blue Ocean proposals can now be found at http://www.open-photonics.com/.

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Henry Chesbrough

Henry Chesbrough is an adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting professor of information systems at Esade Business School. He previously taught at Harvard Business School. He has degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley. He also worked for several years at Quantum Corporation in the hard-disk drive business, prior to his PhD from Berkeley. He is the author of Open Innovation (2003) and five other books on innovation management; he first attended an IRI meeting back in 1998. [email protected]