Author Archives: Frank Mattes
This year, a very interesting trend in collaborative innovation can be observed in Central Europe: The once distinct concepts of “Enterprise 2.0” and “Open Innovation” are merging. Firms are taking a holistic view on collaborative innovation and put the question about whether collaborative innovation should happen primarily within the firm’s walls or with externals out of the focus. Continue reading
Recently, Vern Burkhardt from IdeaConnection and I had a lengthy discussion about Open Innovation, the way Open Innovation is implemented in Central Europe and the future of innovation. Continue reading
Many firms discover along in their search for unknown co-innovators that in different countries potential innovation partners react differently when they are approached by an Open Innovator. Frank Mattes looks at a recent study that may help shine light on the issue. Continue reading
More and more firms are opening up their approach to innovation. Leading firms already have a clear view on where they want to be open and where they deliberately choose a closed innovation model . Working with the leading OI firms one finds that typically open approaches to innovation are within a 6 to 24 months time-slice, depending on whether the firm is looking for a plug-and-play solution, a concept that needs to be tested and integrated or an idea that needs to be fully worked out and implemented. I recently had some interesting discussions in the Energy and Automotive sectors that centered on the question: How can we use open approaches to innovation to increase substance and quality of our long-term technology strategy, i.e. the 5 to 10 year’s perspective? We found an interesting process to answer this question. The process design we chose builds on an interesting observation. … Continue reading
