As several captains of industry, government officials and academic peers gradually learned about the topic of open innovation, they soon welcomed the idea to create a European Hub for knowledge exchange on collaborative forms of innovation. A place where OI best practices could be exchanged and where a genuine market for OI expertise would be prepared and organized for all stakeholders.

Collaborative forms of innovation are here to stay. In a world with continuously increasing knowledge mobility, interconnectivity and a need to go beyond what could be called straightforward innovations, open innovation offers a perfect complement to more traditional closed forms of innovation. However easy and logical the concepts might seem, implementing them is a totally different story. We believe a market for OI knowledge exchange should be created. Providing transparancy, overview and preparing this market, is what Exnovate should do!