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The Future of Open: Stepping into Open Innovation Practices

Posted November 30, 2007 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review

As Joe discussed in the previous article, Henry Chesbrough is credited with coining the term "open innovation" in his 2003 book of the same name [3]. Chesbrough describes a new model for innovation in which companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual property (IP) that they can bring inside the firm and at the same time look for opportunities to license their underutilized homegrown IP to other organizations.

About The Author
Ana Paula Valente Pereira
Ana Paula Valente Pereira is a founding partner of WhatEver Consulting Group, a firm that helps customers to adopt an integrated set of standard IT processes, promoting open innovation and enterprise agility. She is also involved as a committer in the Eclipse Process Framework project. Ms. Pereira founded WhatEverSoft, a spinoff, in 1998, making it the first Sun Authorized Java Center established in Portugal. As CTO, she led the software… Read More
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