Workshop with Prof. John Bessant, AIM Senior Fellow/Exeter University and Prof. Kathrin M. Moeslein, AIM Visiting International Fellow/University of Erlangen-Nurnberg/ HHL Leipzig.

Workshop with Prof. John Bessant, AIM Senior Fellow/Exeter University and Prof. Kathrin M. Moeslein, AIM Visiting International Fellow/University of Erlangen-Nurnberg/ HHL Leipzig.

Overview

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of ‘open’ approaches to innovation with emphasis shifting from knowledge production to ways of enabling extensive knowledge flows on and out of organizations.

Three converging trends can be seen underpinning extensive experimentation around this:

• Opening up R&D to a wider range of external players

• Opening up innovation to a wide range of internal players (via innovation contexts, etc.)

• Opening up innovation to a wider range of user inputs

We have labeled this convergence ‘open collective innovation’ and suggest that it is posing a number of new challenges in the field of innovation management, especially as a result of increasing and ICT enabled networking and the use of interactive Web 2.0 approaches. Significantly this also opens up interesting questions for how we – as a research community – engage with the problem including the potential to make use of such approaches within our research and teaching.

Presentations:

John Bessant - Learning to Manage Open Collective Innovation
Kathrin Moeslein - Open Collective Innovation Presentation
Jason Hoyt - It’s time to change the way we do research