Implementing open innovation

1 IMPLEMENTING OPEN INNOVATION IN EUROPE: CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES S E E I N G T H I N G S D I F F E R E N T LY Door: Ard-Pieter de Man (Atos Consulting) en Vareska van de Vrande (RSM) For the past couple of years, open innovation has been... More

1 IMPLEMENTING OPEN INNOVATION IN EUROPE: CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES S E E I N G T H I N G S D I F F E R E N T LY Door: Ard-Pieter de Man (Atos Consulting) en Vareska van de Vrande (RSM) For the past couple of years, open innovation has been receiving an increasing amount of attention both in academia as well as in business. More and more firms have included open innovation as a central part in their strategy and examples of open innovation practices around Europe are manifold. Consider for example the open innovation practices by leading firms such as Nokia, which has formed strategic partnerships with a number of academic partners to foster innovation. Another example is the High Tech Campus Eindhoven (Netherlands), an ecosystem where than 90 companies share equipment, services and facilities. Following Chesbrough et al. (2006: p1) open innovation can be defined as “the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and to expand t Less