Open Innovation

Innovation is the key driver of economic growth and prosperity. It is the process of creating new or improved products, services, or processes that meet the needs of customers and… Read more: Ecosystems of Technology and Innovation

Why simulation-based learning is becoming AI-resistant by design In times of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, a fundamental shift is taking place in higher education. As AI systems become increasingly… Read more: A Comparison of Business Simulations in Innovation, Marketing, Product Management

Innovation is no longer a solo endeavor. The age of open innovation has arrived, where collaboration across industries, disciplines, and borders is key to addressing global challenges and driving progress.… Read more: Innovation Excellence Framework: Using ISO 56001 to Manage Quality in Innovation Management Systems.

This visual framework offers a conceptual link between the iterative processes of Design Thinking (DT) and the customer-driven methodologies embedded in Steve Blank’s Customer Development (CD) model. The intention is… Read more: Connecting Design Thinking and Startup Ecosystems: An Innographic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a remarkable advancement in technology with the potential to significantly benefit higher education. AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can support educators and enhance student learning experiences… Read more: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Use of AI in Higher Education

Every week, this section contains newly published scientific articles in the field of innovation & entrepreneurship. This section contains the #EditorsChoice and a list of articles grouped into #MustReads, #ShouldReads… Read more: Weekly Science Selections: AI-driven Innovation & NeuroentrepreneurshipWeekly Science Selections

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive posts like this weekly. After our deepdive into the story of Ted Levitt last week, we’ll dive into the extraordinary story of Christopher Freeman… Read more: Chris Freeman: the entrepreneur who created the concept of ‘innovation studies’

In the world of business education, the usage of AI and ChatGPT has severe impact. Not only does it open doors for new ways of learning, it also threatens traditional… Read more: Unleashing Innovation: Strategic Simulation Games as a solution to the use of AI and ChatGPT in Business Education

About a month ago, Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov, posted a message on LinkedIn that contained an impressive methodology to look at regenerative systems thinking. The idea sparked my mind and… Read more: Regenerative Innovation Process Through Systems Thinking [Infographic]

Innovation is the foundation of progress and success in business. A culture of innovation is essential for companies to thrive and stay competitive. One of the biggest challenges for companies… Read more: Avoid the Toxic Trap: the Toxic Matrix

The rise of open innovation has been a long-standing trend in business. In the early 1990s, companies were starting to realize that they could improve their competitive edge by sharing… Read more: 2 Decades of Open Innovation: an infographic

What if we look at innovation from the perspective of learning? In that case, the sole intention of innovation management is not systematically generating and implementing viable offerings, but optimizing… Read more: Infographic: Innovation Learning Arches

The story of this infographic began 16 years ago during a Summer School organized by the University of Cambridge. Not in the City of Perspiring Dreams itself, but on the… Read more: Inneagram: Stakeholder Collaboration in Innovation Ecosystems

After its introduction by the United Nations in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have started to become increasingly accepted and embraced by both the public sector and the private… Read more: Innovation for SDGs

This is an overview of some interesting open access papers published in the last two weeks!

At OpenInnovation.eu, we are on a mission to bridge the gap between education and industry. That’s why we continuously scan the newest, open access, publication in the field of innovation… Read more: Open Innovation’s Latest Papers: Wicked Acceleration, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems & More

The history of innovation theory is as rich as innovation itself. Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle already used the term καινοτομία coming from καινός (new) and τομ (radical craftsmanship):… Read more: A Visual History of Innovation Theory

While the Corona crisis is currently affecting millions worldwide, I wanted to already share with you a fragment of a book I’m currently writing about innovation in the new economy.… Read more: Crisis-triggered Innovation Systems

Simple but effective: I’ve tried to combine the excellent framework of 10 Types of Innovation (Keeley et al, 2013) with the highly successful framework of the Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder,… Read more: How to blend 10 Types of Innovation with the Business Model Canvas?

When the book “Ten Types of Innovation” (Keeley et al.), in its most recent format, hit the shelves in 2013 – not only me, but many of my colleagues in… Read more: When Ten Faces flirt with Ten Types: Ten Types of Innovation Teams

a futuring technique for public organizations Still a holy grail in market research: the DESTEP – STEEPLE – method. It is taught in almost every business-related course in the world… Read more: A 4-Step Approach to Creating Exceptional Business Models

4 Paths to a Sophisticated Innovation Strategy In december I reached out to both Alexander Osterwalder and John Bessant and asked them what is the most important organizational skill for… Read more: The Ambidextrous Organization

Typology for Organizations: an update It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. To… Read more: Typology for Innovative Organizations

As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative… Read more: Innovation Management Canvas

The use of Open Innovation is to a large extent related to the rise of technology. Not only does technology smoothen Open Innovation, also the adaption of new technologies to… Read more: Business Model Generator

In 1990 Kurzweil instantly incubated the way we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with his work The Age of Intelligent Machines. While there is now, almost 30 years later, still… Read more: 11 Artificial Intelligence Eurekas for Organizations: my recap of World Summit AI 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated its definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to… Read more: 33 Routes to Open Innovation

This article is an extended book review of The Quest for Professionalism of George Romme, a 2016-published book by Oxford University Press. The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much… Read more: Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Introduction Entrepreneurial thinking is described as one of the most relevant skills for the 21st-century workforce (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie, & Brande, 2016). And for that reason it has become an… Read more: 11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

A few weeks ago entrepreneur Valer Pop, CEO of LifeSense Group told his startup story to us at the High Tech Campus. After having a successfull career at Holst Centre,… Read more: 50 Research Methods for Innovation Infographic

Many of our students work on innovation projects for SME. When asked to organize an ‘open innovation session’, students enthousiastically start to read details about open innovation, open sessions and… Read more: 99 Mental Barriers for Innovation Infographic

On November 23, I had the honor of giving a talk at the NRC Live event for Education. I was scheduled immediately after Bert van der Zwaan, rector magnificus at… Read more: The University in 2040: 6 trends & an infographic.

As part of a simulation game on innovation management we have been running at universities and in corporate training programs for over 4 years now, we have developed an integrative… Read more: 8 Types of Innovation Processes (Infographic)

A few weeks ago, a friend brought the book “Innovation Thinking Methods: disciplines of thought that can help you rethink industries and unlock 10x better solutions” from Osama A. Hashmi… Read more: Innovation Thinking Methods

As a member of ISPIM, we’re proud to be part of the ISPIM 2016 Conference in Porto again. Organised by ISPIM, and supported by ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação (the… Read more: ISPIM Conference Porto & ISPIM Grand Prize for Innovation Management Excellence

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions… Read more: 50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

In today’s business environment, where startups play an increasingly important role and disruptions come from unexpected corners of the business arena, embracing external sources of knowledge as part of an open… Read more: Do you have an open innovation strategy?

A while ago I sat down with Machiel Wetselaar & David van Dinther to create a list of innovation methodologies for a course we’re developing. Up to now we’ve gathered… Read more: 71 Innovation Methodologies

Remember me? I’m a Silly Valley serial entreprenerd. I’m well-known for using startup jargon, which I learned from Forbes, Fortune and TechCrunch. Shall I share my story with you? Beware:… Read more: Remember me? I’m a Silly Valley Serial Entreprenerd Unicorpse. I like to leverage Start-Up Jargon.

Traditionally, organization design (OD) is an area of expertise focused on the roles and formal structures of organizations. The main goal of OD would be to design the organization in… Read more: The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Over a week ago, I gave a TED talk about the role of simulation games in higher education and how they could disrupt the education system as we know it.… Read more: 7 Billion Universities: How Simulation Games could disrupt Education

In the most recent edition of the Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, I ran into an interesting article about being a startup versus being an early adaptor. The article… Read more: The Early Bird Gets the Worm, But the Second Mouse Gets the Cheese: Non-Technological Innovation in Creative Industries

The Innovation Ecosystem The Innovation Ecosystem is one of the most under-researched topics. One the one hand because policy researchers usually tend to focus more on polls, elections and international… Read more: Schematic overview to understand the complexity of the Innovation Ecosystem (Infographic)

2015’s Innovation Management conference (ISPIM) was all about Open Innovation. In fact, it was one of the most keywords – and definitely the most specific one – used amongst all 233… Read more: 15 Best Open Innovation Articles of 2015

Last week, 233 papers have been presented at the ISPIM conference. Although not proceeded yet, the papers and abstracts are already available for ISPIM members. Being a member, I was… Read more: Trending Topics in Innovation Management

“If you go from Moscow to Budapest, you think you are in Paris. And if you go from Paris to Budapest, you think you are in Moscow,” as Gyorgy Ligeti… Read more: 5 Most Powerfull Insights on Innovation Management gained at the ISPIM Conference

I’m in the lucky position to run into quite a few business owners, corporate directors and leaders on a daily occasion. And when talking to them about innovation – and… Read more: A 5-Dimensional Model for Managing Innovation through Organizational Change

For quite some years already, we (as in educational institutes) have been trying to set up the best ‘creative classroom’ possibile, because we believe that it is an essential element… Read more: Creating Space for Innovation: The Role of “Design Zones”

I believe this article by Sune Gudiksen is interesting because it explores the rationale of game theory in combination with business model innovation. The article argues that gamification (in the… Read more: Using Games to create Business Model Innovation

This study examines whether staff groups which are organized in teams are better at organizational innovation than staff groups who aren’t. Moreover, it examines whether human resource management (HRM) systems,… Read more: Teamwork and Organizational Innovation: The Moderating Role of the HRM Context

In collaboration with Avans University of Applied Sciences, we can provide 2 different tests that will help you analyse your organization’s overall performance on innovation management. The first test, based… Read more: Two Tests to Test your Company’s Innovativeness

Did you know for example that there were 265.690 European Patent Filings in 2013 but only 66.712 were granted? Did you know that your invention will be protected in up… Read more: The world of Patents in Europe (Infographic)

This week, two different articles were posted indepently from each other, but both strongly related. The first article posted 5 reasons not to start a business and the other one… Read more: 10 reasons why you should think twice before starting a start-up.

Ideas management could, according to this article, support the innovation process in four ways: It helps organisations to capture, evaluate and progress proposals It provides a democratic environment to determine… Read more: 4 ways in which ideas management helps innovation flourish

This autumn, we gathered some of the best 21st century courses on Innovation Management for you. While specialist courses at Insead, Berkely or IESE are extremely good, they are expensive… Read more: The world’s best e-courses on Innovation Management

The Center for Process Innovation in the UK has released a video that shows the ‘plane of the future’… without windows to decrease weight and CO2 emmission and to increase… Read more: The future of planes: one huge artificial window

This week, Eric Schmidt posted a presentation on Slideshare about Innovation Management at Google. It highlights the role of innovation culture, creativity, talent and more key elements that every organization… Read more: Brilliant Management Advice From Google’s Eric Schmidt on How Google Works

The proposed framework predicts the effects of working under two distinct types of constraints (those that limit vs. channel cognitive resources) depending on people’s motivational orientation (approach vs. avoidance). The… Read more: Constraints that Help or Hinder Creative Performance: A Motivational Approach

This article indicates that the effects of anger on organizational innovation involve behavioural and cognitive facets. The behavioural effects of anger lead employees to criticize imperfection, correct errors, propose ideas… Read more: Emotions as Constraining and Facilitating Factors for Creativity: Companionate Love and Anger

This time, we’ll put Kelley’s Ten Faces of Innovation in the spotlight. First published in 2005, but still growing in popularity, this work focuses on the different roles people can… Read more: Ten Faces of Innovation in an Infographic

viEUws just published an exclusive video interview in which José Manuel Barroso, the outgoing President of the European Commission, talks about what needs to be done to boost innovation, competitiveness… Read more: Barroso about boosting innovation in the European Union

Excellent article by Angele Grech: “Regulation is complex, multifaceted and dynamic. Financial markets today are characterised by rapid innovation and an evolving business environment, together with changes in customer needs… Read more: Finding opportunities in a culture of (European) regulations

This article discusses different forms of organizational improvisation (ad-hoc, covert, provocative and managed) and relates them to organization theory. Moreover, they propose an interesting overview of different forms of improvisation… Read more: How to Manage Improvisation: a succesfull ingredient for Creativity and Innovation

A short white paper of Dr Mahesh Dabre (University of Akola, India) about the human resource side of managing open innovation and creativity in organizations. Interesting reading. Read full article:… Read more: The Management of Creativity & Innovation

Last year, we wrote a popular article about the Golden Circle of Innovation and the way that not-for-profit organizations are using Open Innovation. Recently, another article was published on this… Read more: How Nonprofits are Leveraging Innovation Management Platforms

According to High Tech Campus frontman Bert-Jan Woertman, building bridges between innovation district is the way forward. He follows up upon a recent publication of Brookings Institution, The Rise of… Read more: The Rise of Innovation Districts in Europe

Recently, there has been some debate about whether or not the theory about Disruptive Innovation should be followed upon by business leaders or not. In her article The Disrupting Machine… Read more: Disruptive Innovation: why the theory absolutely makes sense.

By far one of the most interesting books on innovation of the last few years is “Ten Types of Innovation: the discipline of building breakthroughs” by Keeley. At the time… Read more: Ten Types of Innovation Infographic

This article by Link and Lewrick (2014), presented at the Science-to-Business Marketing Conference, provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of Agile Methods in Innovation Management. The authors propose that… Read more: Agile Methods in a New Area of Innovation Management and Business Modeling.

This article was written before the powerful match against Spain last Friday and states that there are 6 reasons why Louis van Gaal can beat Spain: the lessons from Louis… Read more: 6 Lessons that Innovation Managers could learn from Louis van Gaal

This scientific publication by Bogers and Chesbrough provides an interesting and pragmatic overview of 10 years of scientific research towards Open Innovation. It uses trends graphs, wordclouds and most cited… Read more: 10 Years of Open Innovation Research

This great article from 2011 by Gerry Katz provides us with an overview of the different models that have been developed around innovation processes and New Product Development. In short:… Read more: Where does ‘The Innovation Funnel’ come from? A short history.

“It is not clear, then, that university-based research necessarily leads to the economic payoffs that governments expect,” the report concludes. “But it does point out that investment in research can… Read more: University R&D doesn’t create economic growth

In this article Denys Resnick, executive president of NineSigma presents an opinion toward the difference between incrmental change and real innovation. She makes us wonder if incremental change should be… Read more: How to build an innovation roadmap

This is an interesting article about the role of big data in HR departments and the effect it could have on innovation processes. “In this way, these HR divisions have… Read more: The Innovator Dating Service

An interesting post by Scott MacFarland in the Huffington Post explains why immediacy and accuracy are important factors in the innovation process: “As innovation becomes a necessity for survival, so… Read more: Immediacy, Accuracy, Innovation – It’s Required

What keeps business leaders up at night? If it’s not their company’s ability to streamline operations and lower costs, it’s whether their teams have the vision to see future opportunities… Read more: Business Model Innovation: Ten Lessons from Nonprofits

Interest in open innovation has risen dramatically in recent years. However, much of that interest has centred on large-scale enterprises. The focus of this paper is to explore open innovation… Read more: Open innovation as a start-up strategy

Since the beginning of an open innovation era back in 2003, the research of the phenomenon keeps spiking the interest and the publications with the keyword open innovation grow exponentially… Read more: Towards an Open Innovation Measurement System

Why do certain product and service experiences seem to Undeniable not have that “wow” factor, while others disap- Point customers? Perhaps there’s no better place to turn to than the… Read more: The Magic of Innovation

The paper tackles an interplay of two theoretical approaches concerning innovation management understood as a collective process of at least a few interacting entities. The first approach is anchored in… Read more: Open Innovation cooperation strategies in Regional Innovation System

FEI Open Innovation Open Innovation as an Enabler to Inclusivity, Frugality and Agility May 13-15, 2014 | Boston, MA www.iirusa.com/feiopen   Featuring Unilever, Singularity University, Clorox, Roche, General Mills, Pfizer,… Read more: FEI open innovation 2014

Over the last few month, the phrase “Responsible Innovation” has been booming on scientific social media. It has emerged from Corporate Social Responsibility as a topic that researches the effect… Read more: The 3 Phases of Responsible Innovation

One of the products that we have been supporting recently, the Innovation Management Game, has been nominated by Accenture for the Accenture Innovation Awards 2013. According to the website of Accenture: The Innovation… Read more: Innovation Management Game nominated for Accenture Innovation Awards

Based on the rankings of the SSRN database, we are able to create a ranking of the best – most downloaded – Open Innovation and related topics articles that have… Read more: Top 10 Best Articles on Open Innovation in 2013

Recently, a new article about the “The Golden Circle of Innovation” has been published in the SSRN. It provides an interesting way of combining Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle and some… Read more: The Golden Circle of Innovation

The results of the 2013 study of innovation in the European Union have been published. The most innovative countries are still Germany, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. However, the gap between… Read more: Gap between Innovation Leaders and Innovation Followers in European Union grows

Recently, one of our students made a short video about Crowdsourcing and Co-creation. The video gives insight in most issues that are important in the operationalisation of co-creation:

Shell indicates to be willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in technology-oriented companies for the next 6 to 8 years. according to belegger.nl. The website has published to… Read more: Shell wants to invest in Open Innovation

Recently, an article about the effect of serious games on teaching and learning the essentials of (open) innovation and innovation management has been published on the ssrn. The authors have… Read more: Serious games effective in teaching (open) innovation & management

One of my favorite reads of the last couple of years is the work “Creative Leadership: Skills that drive innovation”, written by Puccio, Mance and Murdock. They argue that by… Read more: Creativity as a Life Skill for Innovation

A couple of weeks ago, I had to give a presentation about innovation management at the Frismakers Festival in the Netherlands. The presentation was about innovation management at Avans University,… Read more: Innovation Management at Avans University

Recent decades have been the years of outsourcing. Not only did companies outsource traditional cheap production towards more interesting markets, companies also outsourced most of their ICT and knowledge-based services… Read more: European Commission opts for Industrial Revolution 2.0

In the latest issue of IPSIM, an interesting article article about Open Innovation 2.0 has been published. What is Open Innovation 2.0, according to the author? “A key distinguishing attribute… Read more: Open Innovation 2.0: evolution or revolution?

Last week the Global Innovation Barometer (GE) has been launched. The barometer provides results from (the most important) economies around the world . For instance, in the Dutch Report they… Read more: Global Innovation Barometer: Innovation has Strategic Priority

The Brainport Region has indicated to be searching for thousands of employees with a technical background. The local market is not offering enough, so the region has (again) started a… Read more: Brainport needs thousands of new knowledge workers

Open Innovation has been hyped for over a decade now. Despite of the fact that many researchers have been researching core aspects of the Open Innovation definition – as Henry… Read more: Open Innovation: Comparing Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Idea Sharing in SMEs

Just like last year, we’ll publish a (small) list containing the most promising start-ups of the year. Obviously, we’ll share our opinion from the perspective of Open Innovation by answering… Read more: Innovation Management Game: start-up of the year

“Mention the word “innovation” and most people will think of extraordinary inventions created by solitary geniuses,” as mentioned in the first line of Ernst & Young‘s introduction to (one of)… Read more: The Innovation Spiral: a closer look on Ernst & Young’s innovation model