Comments on: Time for principles in Open Innovation? http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/time-for-principles-in-open-innovation/ Learning how to create Market Breakthrough Products through targeted Open Innovation and Networking Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:21:30 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: john http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/time-for-principles-in-open-innovation/#comment-1082 john Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:56:43 +0000 http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/?p=317#comment-1082 From what I've seen of the Open Innovation "victims"(and I don't think that many of them would see themselves this way)the key issue is trust. These companies will have invested significant effort to respond to an RFP for example only to be treated poorly e.g. long delays in responding, strangely worded questions and lack of transparency about the motives of the seeker. At the end, they most probably get a rejection from the client and from their point of view it is often hard to know if their IP has been stolen subsequently or if their time was wasted helping another company to do some cheap technology scouting. The outcome is that many of them refuse to have anything to do with Open Innovation from then on. From what I’ve seen of the Open Innovation “victims”(and I don’t think that many of them would see themselves this way)the key issue is trust. These companies will have invested significant effort to respond to an RFP for example only to be treated poorly e.g. long delays in responding, strangely worded questions and lack of transparency about the motives of the seeker. At the end, they most probably get a rejection from the client and from their point of view it is often hard to know if their IP has been stolen subsequently or if their time was wasted helping another company to do some cheap technology scouting. The outcome is that many of them refuse to have anything to do with Open Innovation from then on.

]]> By: Jana Görs http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/time-for-principles-in-open-innovation/#comment-951 Jana Görs Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:49:03 +0000 http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/?p=317#comment-951 Hm, sounds familiar. Form your observation of the "victims": What went wrong? In Germany Open Innovation was one of the number one trends of 2009. But only very few organisations know actually how to use open innovation. There is this assumption that open innovation is "only" getting ideas from customers. But these companies are missing the point in open innovation ... That happens a lot. You can obeserve it even in discussions of online communities. Hm, sounds familiar. Form your observation of the “victims”: What went wrong?

In Germany Open Innovation was one of the number one trends of 2009. But only very few organisations know actually how to use open innovation. There is this assumption that open innovation is “only” getting ideas from customers. But these companies are missing the point in open innovation …

That happens a lot. You can obeserve it even in discussions of online communities.

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