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Name: Oliver Alexy

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Bio: Post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College Business School, London, UK.

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Case #8 – NEC in Princeton

Case #8 – NEC in Princeton

By Oliver Alexy • on February 22, 2012

It has been a considerable while since my last posting—I have been teaching quite a lot over the past few months, so I have had a chance to reacquaint

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First Guest Posting – FIAT

First Guest Posting – FIAT

By Oliver Alexy • on December 14, 2011

It’s a great pleasure to welcome the first guest contribution to the OpenInnovation.net teaching section. It is by

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Case #7 – The Fate of the Vasa

Case #7 – The Fate of the Vasa

By Oliver Alexy • on November 16, 2011

Admittedly, it has been a lot longer than a few weeks since my last case update – apologies for that. In turn, I will use the chance of this “comeback”

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Case #6 – Siemens Enterprise Communications facing ‘open competition’

Case #6 – Siemens Enterprise Communications facing ‘open competition’

By Oliver Alexy • on September 19, 2011

Having barely been able to hold back for five postings, it’s finally time to begin tooting my own horn – but not only because I think Competition

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Case #5 – Exploring the Future through Open Innovation at Intel

Case #5 – Exploring the Future through Open Innovation at Intel

By Oliver Alexy • on July 21, 2011

As promised in a recent posting, I will be continuing my exploration of

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Case #4 – Open Innovation through Acquisition at Cisco

Case #4 – Open Innovation through Acquisition at Cisco

By Oliver Alexy • on June 24, 2011

Having looked at a somewhat “extreme” approach to open innovation in my

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Case #3 – Threadless: The Business of Community

Case #3 – Threadless: The Business of Community

By Oliver Alexy • on May 31, 2011

A question that I get asked a lot in classes around open innovation is how to make money from being open. For example, no one would disagree that a large

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Case #2 – IBM going ‘open’

In my view, one of the most important questions in the space of open innovation is how closed companies can make the transition to being open. One of my favorite cases on this topic is Baldwin, O’Mahony,

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Case #1 – Open and Closed Innovation at Merck

When teaching about open innovation, I found it much easier to start a clear description of what closed innovation is, and why firms may decide to be closed even when presented with a potentially viable

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Welcome to the OpenInnovation.net Teaching Section

We are very happy to launch the new teaching section on OpenInnovation.net with this article. Why a teaching section on open innovation you may ask? Quite simply to support people in teaching positions

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