Instant Answers to Open Innovation Questions
Help is at hand for science researchers who want to engage with open innovation but are unsure about where to go and how to go about it. A free guide has just been released called ”Open Innovation – A Handbook for Researchers”.
The book includes advice on how researchers can apply open innovation in their work, and it helps them to navigate this way of innovating.
Open innovation has many tools and techniques at its disposal such as crowdsourcing, partnerships, ideation, open data, open access and crowdfunding. The new handbook explores these terms, providing clear definitions and examples of how they have been and can be applied.
In so doing the free guide answers such key questions as: How can I get in touch with lots of individuals who might want to contribute to my project? Where can I turn for funding and strategic partners?
Case Studies
The information is backed up by a number of open innovation case studies. This includes how one researcher, Dr Alexander Osterwalder used crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and creative commons to disseminate his research on business model generation.
“I wouldn’t be where I am today without the Internet and without applying an open model,” he said. “Our original academic content found a global audience by relentless sharing under a Creative Commons license and by using the most recent Internet tools.”
Vital
The guide also makes the point that it is imperative for scientists to get to grips with open innovation because many funding agencies and universities are using it, requiring their researchers to make their reports available to the public for free.
The handbook was developed at Innovationskontor Väst, the innovation office at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
To get hold of a copy, click here.
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