Open Innovation Experts
Last updated November 26, 2005

Wim Vanhaverbeke

Department of Business Studies, Limburg University Center
Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology

Dr. Vanhaverbeke has done research on the absorption of externally developed technology. His team is studying the tension between broadening vs. deepening technological capabilities and managing lead user relations for “technology push” innovations. The team is also studying the links between corporate entrepreneurship and corporate strategy, and the use of external technology acquisition to support such entrepreneurship.

His interest in open innovation relates to the new routines companies develop to absorb externally developed technology in a rapidly changing environment, either to strengthen current businesses or to develop new ones. Open innovation offers also the possibility to link different literature streams that remain unconnected: examples are the “Metanational” concept in international management; alliance network literature and the relational view on the firm; and a process view and corporate strategy formation.

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