Several innovation intermediaries have assisted managers to make the shift from closed to open innovation and facilitated the access to rapidly emerging technology markets. We analyzed how innovation intermediaries use different business models to serve the market. Other actors such as incubators, innovation agencies, science and technology parks are also increasingly shaping firms' innovation strategies. Profiting from open innovation will increasingly be related to the smart use of the services offered by these innomediaries and specialized organizations.
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“There is a small but growing invisible college forming around open innovation, and related areas of inquiry around distributed, collaborative, and user-centered innovation. This network exists already in the US and in Western Europe, and is beginning to expand in other areas of the world. We all have much to learn from one another, and Exnovate promises to provide a strong institutional support for open and collaborative research on open and collaborative innovation processes.”
Prof. dr. Henry Chesbrough
Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/
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Exnovate is a platform for companies and knowledge intensive organizations that are practicing open innovation. In particular, Exnovate serves as a clearinghouse and network platform, linking together the international community of companies, academia, governments and service providers. Since most knowledge and best practices on open & collaborative innovation are scattered around in different organizations, the platform can significantly speed up the learning process of the partners involved. In addition, Exnovate can help create and valorize knowledge on open & collaborative innovation, hence bridging the gap between theory and practice.
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