Open Innovation Experts
Last updated November 26, 2005

Henry Chesbrough

Visting Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Chesbrough does research on managing technology and innovation, including the spinoff and commercialization strategies of research labs such as Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. He has also studied the industry dynamics of the global disk drive industry.

His book Open Innovation: The New Imperative (HBS Press, 2003) proposes open innovation as a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D. He is interested in how firms combine the use of external and internal sources of technologies, and markets them internal and external paths. He has also written about open innovation for Sloan Management Review, Research-Technology Management, and Intel Technical Journal.

His latest book is Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006).

Dr. Chesbrough is a frequent speaker on open innovation at industry and academic events, as well as a consultant to leading companies on three continents.