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Technology & Innovation Management (49016) Week 5

Technology & Innovation Management (49016) Week 5

Innovation Ecosystem

Collborative arrangements through which firms combine their indiv offerings into a coherent, customer-facing solution. (Adner, 2006, p.2)

Inter-organizational, political, economic, environmental and technological systems of innov through which a milieu conducive to business growth is catalysed, sustained and supported.

Open Innovation

inviting inputs from outside. like uni, corporates, gov, competitors

output is also not just useful for the company, but for benefits of joint ventures.

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Why open innovation?

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Usage in Innovation Funnel

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How open is Open Innov

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Closed Innovation

crowd sourcing ideas also

in the boundaries of the organization

only taking ideas, inputs from their staff etc is closed.

Networks

Why do we need Networks

  1. Collective efficiency
  2. Collective learning
  3. Collective risk-taking
  4. Intersection of different knowledge sets

Why Networks?

  • Social captial
  • Benefits outweigh costs
  • Accessing resources
  • Path-creating process

Open Networks

Complex products, services and business have to interface with others

Innovation communities

Innovation contests

Innovation markets

Partners for Open Innovation

Lead User Approach

  • Show relevant needs long before the majority of users
  • Possess motivation and relevant knowledge to solve these needs
  • Usually workshop-based collaboration

Stakeholder Analysis

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Customer Co-Creation

Crowd-sourcing

create challenges (time boxed - continuous innovation)

intention was to check what problem it solves.

Cross-industry Innovation

Exemplary type of knowledge

  • Tech
  • concepts
  • methods and working principles

Goals:

  • Systematic creation of radical innovations
  • Reduction od dev risks
  • Reduction of dev costs
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