  | Book Details Title: Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business |
Book DescriptionReview “Henry Chesbrough has this unique ability to transform complex concepts into messages that everyone can relate. Open Innovation Results links for the first time the effects of the financial crisis on innovation and therefore on long-term productivity. It is a must read for politicians, policy-makers and business leaders that want to make a difference by designing the right policies that drive not only the generation of new ideas but more importantly their broad dissemination and adoption by society.” — Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation”At Enel, Open Innovation is combined with Sustainability, to make what we call Innovability, which we have embedded in our business model and our operations. They create shared value for the Company and all of its stakeholders.Open Innovation Results addresses the changing environment in which most companies operate by moving past the hype of Open Innovation, putting theory into practice and achieving tangible results.” — Francesco Starace, CEO and General Manager, Enel”Open Innovation Results offers extensive insights into how organizations today can best innovate by showing the highly effective and practical ways of innovation across boundaries. To put it simply, Chesbrough shows us how carry out innovation wisely in this day and age.” — Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University Business School”Open Innovation for Results, Chesbrough presents a bold yet practical guide to harnessing the extraordinary power of boundary-spanning innovation. Taking a systemic view of innovation, he lays out a powerful and convincing case for infusing the spirit of openness into every aspect of the innovation process. This is essential reading for anyone who understands there are only two choices today: innovate or evaporate.” — Gary Hamel, Gary Hamel, director of Management Innovation eXchange, ranked by the Wall Street Journal as the worlds most influential business thinker”In this powerful and well researched book, Chesbrough builds out the open innovation paradigm by showing organizational leaders how to go beyond the generation of new technology, to leverage two additional processes – those of dissemination and absorption � to truly realize the power of open innovation.” — Rita McGrath, Professor at Columbia Business School, and author of Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen”Open Innovation Results is Chesbrough’s most ambitious and expansive view yet of this important concept. It breaks new ground, linking open innovation not only to enterprise performance but to national economic growth as well. There are important insights into the difference between “open” and “free” innovation, along with insightful characterizations of China’s use of open innovation practices and policies.” — David Teece, Thomas Tusher Professor in Global Business, UC Berkeley Read more About the Author Henry Chesbrough, Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, BerkeleyHenry Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is also the LUISS Chair Professor of Open Innovation at LUISS University in Rome. He is the author of several management books on innovation: Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), and Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). He has won numerous awards for his work, including two honorary doctorates, the IRI Medal of Achievement, and the Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission. He has been named in the Thinkers 50 list of top management thinkers four successive times, and recognized as one of the top 50 business and technology leaders by Scientific American. Read more Customers Review:In my opinion this is one of the best books of Henry Chesbrough. After more than ten years of Open Innovation Henry Chesbrough widens the lens and not only looks at how innovation is managed inside the company but also outside. Great insights for innovation managers and experts but also for public policy and competition. | |
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