Contributors
Henry Chesbrough, Ph.D.
Dr. Henry Chesbrough created the theory and coined the term open Innovation. His insights into open innovation models have restructured the world of research and development and created new landscapes of business development and innovation strategy. An internationally acclaimed author, his open innovation concept was first introduced in his award-winning book, “Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology” (Harvard Business Press, 2003). This approach was further extended from technology innovation to business model innovation in his successful follow-up book, “Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape” (Harvard Business Press, 2006).
Chesbrough’s newest work, “Open Services and Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era” (Jossey-Bass, January 2011) focuses on innovation models that can truly drive transformation and growth. With global economies shifting from being manufacturing-focused to services-focused, openness, and its ability to deliver improved choices for customers and better economies for corporations, is a path that can turn commodity companies into trailblazers.
Beyond authoring several highly acclaimed books, Chesbrough also serves as executive director for The Center for Open Innovation, which focuses on conducting research, publishing articles and developing teaching materials around open innovation. Before his work at Berkeley, Chesbrough was an assistant professor of business administration and the Class of 1961 Fellow at the Harvard Business School.
His academic work has been published in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research-Technology Management, Business History Review, and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He is the author of more than 20 case studies on companies in the IT and life sciences sectors, available through Harvard Business School Publishing.
Prior to his academic career, Chesbrough spent 10 years in various product planning and strategic marketing positions in Silicon Valley companies. He worked for seven of those years at Quantum Corporation, a leading hard disk drive manufacturer and a Fortune 500 company. Previously, he worked at Bain and Company. Chesbrough holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Yale University, summa cum laude. He can be reached at henry@chesbrough.com.
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Joel West, Ph.D.
Dr. Joel West is a Professor at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, CA. His research over the past 15 years has focused on how firms use selective openness for competitive advantage, and how they can gain competitive advantage under conditions of externally imposed openness.
In the open innovation community West is best known for co-editing “Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm” (Oxford, 2006) with Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeke, the first book on open innovation written for an academic readership. In addition to the 2006 book, he has published journal articles and book chapters on open innovation, and also lectured and consulted on open innovation on three continents. Since January 2007, he has also been the author of the Open Innovation blog.
In addition to open innovation, West has also done research on open source software and open standards. His research has been published in Asian Survey, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, R&D Management, Research Policy, Telecommunications Policy and The Information Society, among other journals.
Prior to his appointment at KGI, he was on the faculty of the San Jose State University College of Business, where he taught courses in strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and supervised the undergraduate honors consulting class. He has previously served as director of the SJSU Solar Workforce project and research director for the Silicon Valley Open Source Research Project at SJSU.