Center for Open Innovation


The Center for Open Innovation, a unit of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at UC-Berkeley, conducts scholarly research and engages corporate leadership in three key areas:

Open Innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate innovation. With knowledge now widely distributed, companies cannot rely entirely on their own research, but should acquire inventions or intellectual property from other companies when it advances the business model.

Open Business Models create value by leveraging many more ideas, due to their inclusion of a variety of external concepts, and can also enable greater value capture, by using a key asset, resource, or position not only in the company's own business model but also in other companies' businesses.

Services Science, Management and Engineering integrates management, social and cognitive sciences, computer science, operations research, and engineering to drive innovation, competition, and quality of life through service systems.

If you'd like an introduction in a conversational style, please see the Welcome and Get Involved letter by COI Executive Director Dr. Henry Chesbrough, or visit our News Room and Reading Room for more detailed information.

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New Event:

Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship: Creating New Businesses Based on Open Innovation

Provides concepts, processes and tools to launch and manage new growth initiatives within a firm.

September 15-19, 2008 (five days).  Register now!


Open Innovation in the News

A Dark Art No More: Chesbrough featured in The Economist

Chesbrough in BusinessWeek: Microsoft Should Welcome Piracy in India and China

Chesbrough in the Wall Street Journal: Why Bad Things Happen To Good Technology

Chesbrough writes in Forbes about the Productivity Crisis in R&D

BusinessWeek names Open Business Models one of Best Innovation and Design Books of 2006

Book Review of Open Business Models in the Wall Street Journal