“Open innovation” describes a new paradigm for the management of industrial innovation in the 21st century, in which firms work with external partners to both commercialize their internal innovations and to obtain a source of external innovations that can be commercialized. The term was coined by Henry Chesbrough, based on his research on the innovation practicles of large multinational companies.

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Bibliography

See our bibliography of open innovation research.

Blog

See the open innovation web log for the latest information on OI research.

Books

These are the published books on the subject of open innovation:

• Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0-19-929072-5.
• Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003, ISBN: 1-57851-837-7.
• Henry Chesbrough, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006, ISBN: 1-42210-427-3.

Journals

Here are journal issues dedicated to open innovation

• R&D Management, “Opening up the Innovation Process,” June 2006

Conferences

Here are management conference sessions on open innovation:

• Academy of Management 2008: Symposium on “User Innovation and Firm Boundaries: Organizing for Innovation by Users,” August 11, 2008
• HBS-MIT User and Open Innovation 2008 Workshop, August 4-6, 2008
• European Academy of Management 2007: tracks on “Open Innovation” and “Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities”
• Academy of Management 2006: PDW on “Bringing External Innovation Inside,” Sunday, August 13, 2006, (Submission # 10355).
• Academy of Management 2005: All-Academy Symposium “Open Innovation: Empirical Research on Locating and Incorporating External Innovations,” August 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m. (Session #1064).
• DRUID Summer Conference 2005: debate over “Open Innovation”, June 2005.
• Academy of Management 2004: PDW held August 7, 2004 on “Managing Open Innovation”