Henry ChesbroughUniversity of California, Berkeley | UCB · Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
Henry Chesbrough
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Introduction
Henry Chesbrough currently works at the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, University of California, Berkeley. Henry does research in Organizational Studies, Information Systems and Business Administration.
He is best known for his work on Open Innovation, a new paradigm for industrial innovation. His work includes numerous case studies, empirical survey research, and qualitative analyses. He also organizes an annual World Open Innovation Conference, which is open to both academic and industry attendees.
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Open innovation rests on the idea that not all the smart people work only for you, and managing human interaction across organizational boundaries is therefore central to open innovation. This article starts with outlining and reviewing research on this human dimension of open innovation. The article develops seven principles of innovation-producin...
This chapter will offer an overview of the contributions to the Open Innovation Handbook. We will reflect on the general development of Open Innovation as a field of knowledge and specifically explain how Open Innovation contributes, extends, and transforms the field of innovation studies. We will guide the reader through the last 20 years of Open...
The literature on open innovation has documented how companies expand their boundaries to become more open, leaving out how boundaries narrow as open innovation relationships end--the closing of open innovation. We explain how open innovation creates new relationships on multiple levels--among firms, individuals, and technologies. Drawing on open i...
Ecosystems are the result of a delicate balance between centripetal forces that push economic activities toward integration, and centrifugal forces that pull economic activities out onto the market. Ecosystems evolve when these forces change. For example, technological complementarities—the main source of centripetal force—are dynamic and may be co...
For better or worse, digital technologies are reshaping everything, from customer behaviors and expectations to organizational and manufacturing systems, business models, markets, and ultimately society. To understand this overarching transformation, this paper extends the previous literature which has focused mostly on the organizational level by...
Despite the popularity of open innovation in recent years, studies examining the impact of open innovation upon firm performance have shown mixed results. Previous empirical work on this topic is often based on surveys or archival sources, usually done either in isolation or in aggregate through employing proxy measures. In contrast, we employ an u...
The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic confronts us with a global grand challenge representing an unprecedented crisis for health, economies, and societies. While digital champions are thriving, a large number of businesses and industries have been facing radical uncertainty, pushing some to the edge of collapse. This emergency calls for new ways to...
The Belt and Road Initiative can be seen as a country‐level policy of Inside‐Out open innovation. Through the content analysis of presidential speeches and the exploratory case studies of high‐speed rail and semiconductor industries in China, we clarify the role of the government as an orchestrator of open innovation and developing dynamic capabili...
While open innovation has been increasingly adopted in developed countries, firms from emerging markets such as Brazil markedly fall behind this trend. Our understanding of the reasons behind this phenomenon remains nevertheless limited, since most research focuses on the industrialized world. In this paper, we aim to inspire the academic community...
The tragic failure of the global supply chain in the face of the current coronavirus outbreak has caused acute shortages of essential frontline medical devices and personal protective equipment, crushing fear among frontline health workers and causing fundamental concerns about the sustainability of the health system. Much more coordination, integr...
Open innovation includes external knowledge sources and paths to market as complements to internal innovation processes. Open innovation has to date been driven largely by business objectives, but the imperative of social challenges has turned attention to the broader set of goals to which open innovation is relevant. In this paper, we discuss how...
Overview: For artificial intelligence (AI) technology to impact society positively, the major AI companies must coordinate their efforts and agree on safe practices. The social legitimacy of AI development depends on building a consensus among AI companies to prevent its potentially damaging downsides. Consortia like the Partnership on AI (PAI) aim...
Social innovations, just as any other form of innovation, can benefit from crowd engagement. However, the enthusiasm for crowdsourcing social innovation has so far run ahead of its effects. Many platforms are stillborn and struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms. As opposed to commercial crowd innovations projects,...
Covid-19 has severely tested our public health systems. Recovering from Covid-19 will soon test our economic systems. Innovation will have an important role to play in recovering from the aftermath of the coronavirus. This article discusses both how to manage innovation as part of that recovery, and also derives some lessons from how we have respon...
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This paper describes the case of how the Danish beer manufacturer, Carlsberg, developed the Green Fiber Bottle as part of its sustainability program through an open innovation approach in collaboration with complementary partners. It thereby illustrates how a grand challenge associated with sustainability can be effectively addressed throug...
Open innovation has become well established as a new imperative for organizing innovation. In line with the increased use in industry, it has also attracted a lot of attention in academia. However, understanding the full benefits and possible limits of open innovation still remains a challenge. We draw on strategic management theory to describe som...
Crowdsourcing presents new opportunities to generate social innovation. However, many crowdsourcing social innovation initiatives struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms. We studied how to design crowdsourcing platforms for social innovation by building and examining a platform called travel2change. We illustrate a...
While open innovation has been increasingly adopted in developed countries, firms from emerging markets such as Brazil markedly fall behind this trend. Our understanding of the reasons behind this phenomenon remains nevertheless limited, since most research focuses on the industrialized world. In this paper, we aim to inspire the academic community...
While open innovation has been increasingly adopted in developed countries, firms from emerging markets such as Brazil markedly fall behind this trend. Our understanding of the reasons behind this phenomenon remains nevertheless limited, since most research focuses on the industrialized world. In this paper, we aim to inspire the academic community...
This chapter highlights how the three core processes of open innovation (OI) should be organized and managed when the OI process concerns direct rivals. We seek to show how OI between competitors affects each of the three OI processes and leads to new potentially fruitful research areas. We also attempt to define a research program for OI involving...
Open innovation has attracted a significant amount of attention from scholars and practitioners. Prior research on open innovation has mainly focused on collaborative inventing. However, understanding the processes and outcomes of joint inventing is not sufficient for understanding sustained open‐innovation activities and the competitive advantages...
Industrial innovation processes are becoming more open. The large, vertically integrated R&D laboratory systems of the 20th century are giving way to more vertically disintegrated networks of innovation that connect numerous companies into ecosystems. Since innovation policy ultimately rests on the activities and initiatives of the private sector,...
Open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, business, and policy making. This article describes the state of open innovation at the intersection of research, practice, and policy. It discusses some key trends (e.g., digital transformation), challenges (e.g., uncertainty), and potential solutions (e.g., EU funding programs) in the cont...
We present a large-sample survey of open innovation adoption and management in large firms, a follow-up to a previous study. We repeat some of the survey measures from the first survey, finding that open innovation continues to be widely practiced in about 80 percent of responding firms. Outside-in open innovation is more often practiced than insid...
The future of open innovation will be more extensive, more collaborative, and more engaged with a wider variety of participants. It will extend beyond technology to business models, and it will embrace both product and service innovation. Just as no man is an island, no firm that restricts itself to the confines of its own R&D lab will survive in a...
We know virtually nothing about the managers and practitioners who are driving open innovation in large companies. Who are the managers operating in open innovation teams or units? What is their profile? How long do they stay in an open innovation job, and what is their tenure in the company? Where did they work before their open innovation job, an...
This article introduces the special issue on the increasing role of cities as a driver for (open) innovation and entrepreneurship. It frames the innovation space being cultivated by proactive cities. Drawing on the diverse papers selected in this special issue, this introduction explores a series of tensions that are emerging as innovators and entr...
Innovation has become more open in recent years. Yet the decision to become more open and the challenge of sustaining that openness are not well understood. This is the concern of the “content” branch of Open Strategy, defined as the branch that addresses an organization's open innovation strategy. We examine the initial motivations to adopt an ope...
This article analyzes how the patent stock of new entrants in industries shaped by systemic innovations influences their subsequent
openness in innovation. The results suggest that patenting increases new entrants’ number of open innovation relationships,
on average. This association, however, varies across relationships of differing technology int...
Seeking a better approach to pharmaceutical research and development.
Pharmaceutical drug development costs have risen rapidly over the past twenty years. However, the number of new molecular entities being approved has not increased. As pharmaceutical companies scale back their R&D in light of this deteriorating productivity, significant unmet medical needs remain unaddressed. Much of these rising costs can be trace...
The art and science of technology and innovation management has been theorized by many management scholars over the past several decades. This symposium attempts to discuss and integrate some of the most important concepts of technology and innovation management. In particular, the symposium revisits the contributions of knowledge management, colla...
There has been substantial progress in the fields of open innovation and business model innovation as separate research streams. Despite first attempts to more systematically integrate these two research fields (Chesbrough, 2007; Markides and Sosa, 2013, Teece, 2010), further integration of these two fields is deemed necessary and promising as open...
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In questo capitolo viene spiegato il concetto di modello di business e si esplorano le ragioni per cui „innovazione“ e „innovazione nei servizi“ non sono più esclusivamente un problema di tecnologia. Evidenziamo che sono piuttosto i modelli di business, oggetto di trattazione, a costituire una componente critica al centro del processo di innovazion...
Because of two trends - rising R&D costs and decreased product revenues (due to shorter product life cycles) - companies are finding it increasingly difficult to justify investments in innovation. Business models that embrace open innovation address both issues. The development costs of innovation are reduced by the greater use of external technolo...
This chapter explores the implications of the transition from closed to open innovation over the past two decades, which Japanese companies have been relatively late to address. Examples of the fate of similar US companies are given. On the one hand, the wide dispersion of critical knowledge for innovation is ignored at great risk. On the other, al...
The services sector has grown over the last 50 years to dominate economic activity in most advanced industrial economies, yet scientific understanding of modern services is rudimentary. Here, we argue for a services science discipline to integrate across academic silos and advance service innovation more rapidly.
The goal of this project was to identify the current level at which internationalization has been adopted as a theme in the North American animal science curriculum and to identify its value and the barriers to its implementation. We surveyed animal, dairy, and poultry science departments across Canada and the United States. One hundred twenty-four...
Champions of Yirteal corporations are urging managers to subcontract anything and everything. All over the world, companies are jumping on the bandwagon, decentralizing, downsizing, and forging alliances to pursue innovation. Why is the idea of the virtual organization so tantalizing? Because we have come to believe that bureaucracy is bad and flex...
Champions of virtual corporations urge managers to subcontract anything and everything. And because several high-profile corporate giants have been outperformed by more nimble, "networked" competitors, the idea of the virtual organization is tantalizing. Many executives have come to believe that a company that invests in as little as possible will...
Large companies have long sensed the potential value of investing in external startups, but more often than not, they fail to get it right. Remember the dash to invest in new ventures in the late 1990s and the hasty retreat when the economy turned? This article presents a framework that will help a company decide whether it should invest in a parti...
This paper offers a parsimonious theory of national institutional factors that promote or inhibit the formation of start-up firms in the USA and Japan. Three factors are proposed: the technical labor market, the venture capital market and the structure of buyer-supplier ties. Complementarities between these factors cause them to work as a system, w...
Champions of virtual corporations are urging managers to subcontract anything and everything. All over the world, companies are jumping on the bandwagon, decentralizing, downsizing, and forging alliances to pursue innovation. Why is the idea of the virtual organization so tantalizing? Because we have come to believe that bureaucracy is bad and flex...
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EINST4INE aims to develop new concepts, approaches and methods in the area of digital transformation and brings together a unique group of world-leading experts in the areas of Open Innovation, Industry 4.0, digital transformation and innovation ecosystems.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956745.
