Program in Open Innovation
(formerly Center for Open Innovation)
Welcome and Get Involved
Welcome to the Program in Open Innovation (formerly Center for Open Innovation)!
Our focus as a Program is to conduct research, publish articles and develop teaching materials around a more distributed model of industry innovation, that we call “Open Innovation." We are part of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Institute for Business Innovation, and the Haas School of Business, here at the University of California, Berkeley.
Our goal is to make the Program in Open Innovation as externally connected as we can, to identify important ideas and information from outside, and to share our own ideas with interested parties on the outside. We are very “open” to your involvement with the Program.
If you’d like to engage with us here at the Program, there are at least four different ways to do so. First, we are eager to develop deeper insights into industrial innovation processes, through student projects and case studies. These projects have to be interesting enough to attract students to work on them, yet they must be limited enough that they can be completed in about three months’ time. Our intention is to share these materials with others, such as future students and others interested in how these processes actually work. If you would like to participate in such a project, we’d like to hear from you!
Second, we do periodic studies of important research topics, where we work with organizations to examine important challenges they face, and try to collect data and perform analyses that bear on these challenges. In contrast to the student projects and case studies above, though, these studies typically require more time to produce and go deeper into the key research questions. Our goal here is to publish our findings for the wider academic and business community. You can find earlier examples of such work under the Publications button on this website.
Third, we have formed a group called the Berkeley Innovation Forum to create a community around the study of innovation management problems, and to fund research of interest to the group. Membership costs $10,000 per year. To date, Forum members include IBM, Ricoh, NEC, Wipro, Kellogg, Kraft Foods, Solvay, Heatcraft, Unilever, Air Products, Coca Cola, and Eastman Chemical. Meetings are twice a year, with the Fall meeting held in Berkeley, and the Spring meeting hosted at a company’s location. For more information, contact Henry Chesbrough at chesbrou@haas.berkeley.edu.
Finally, from time to time companies seek specific advice on particular problems that they are facing. In this last instance, there is usually some protection for the information specified in advance, and the companies do not wish for the results to be published. This outside work is limited to a certain percentage of faculty time by University policy, so it is the most expensive way to engage with us. Contact Henry Chesbrough directly, at henry@chesbrough.com for more information if you are interested.
Whatever your role and interest in getting involved, please visit our pages and for more information contact us at coi@haas.berkeley.edu.
Henry Chesbrough
Executive Director
Program in Open Innovation
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