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Course Syllabus: Strategic Entrepreneurship through Open Innovation
Welcome back! As you may know, I have taken on a new position, which has somewhat kept me from contributing here as much as I wanted to. I am now in a few weeks into my teaching for this term, and as always, a considerable share of it is case-based. On top of that, this time around, I have finally been able to create a brand-new open innovation-related
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Case #8 – NEC in Princeton
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 myself with some brilliant case studies. The one I would like to talk about today is “NEC:
First Guest Posting – FIAT
It’s a great pleasure to welcome the first guest contribution to the OpenInnovation.net teaching section. It is by Alberto DiMinin, Assistant Professor in Management at the University of Pisa (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna). It is based on
Case #7 – The Fate of the Vasa
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” to introduce to you a case that is not exactly on open innovation, but is one of my all-time favorites on the execution of innovation projects:
Case #6 – Siemens Enterprise Communications facing ‘open competition’
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 from the Commons? Siemens Enterprise Communications and Asterisk (Case 308-388-1 at
Case #5 – Exploring the Future through Open Innovation at Intel
As promised in a recent posting, I will be continuing my exploration of cases that show how firms organize their open innovation activities. Last time,
Case #4 – Open Innovation through Acquisition at Cisco
Having looked at a somewhat “extreme” approach to open innovation in my last posting, I return to a more classical one this time: open innovation through acquisitions. This is a crucial topic for research and practice,
Case #3 – Threadless: The Business of Community
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 user community is a nice-to-have, but how can you best turn it into a profitable source of innovation? The multimedia case Threadless:
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, and Quinn’s IBM and Linux (HBS-Case 9-903-083). As the title suggests, this case describes events
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 opportunity to open up. With that knowledge in mind, students (in subsequent classes) found it much