The R&D team is stuck on a problem they've been circling for months. Meanwhile, someone outside the organisation — a startup, a university lab, a former competitor — solved it last year. But nobody thought to look.
Open Innovation is Henry Chesbrough's framework for leveraging knowledge flows across organisational boundaries. You intentionally use inflows and outflows of ideas — through licensing, joint ventures, hackathons, innovation challenges, or corporate venture capital — to accelerate innovation beyond what internal R&D alone can produce.
“I've just been told the strategy has changed and I have to reset everything by Friday.”
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