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Livre : CHESBROUGH, H., VANHAVERBEKE, W., WEST, J., (2008), Open Innovation : Researching a New Paradigm, OUP Oxford, p. 400.
TOUS ENTRE-PRENEURS
VISIONNAIRES DU 21eme siècle
WIM VANHAVERBEKE
In the books of Henry Chesbrough open innovation is mainly applied to large industrial companies (and more recently to large services companies). This prompts an urgent need to apply open innovation and open business models to other types of organizations too. SMEs represent an important yet neglected category in the open innovation literature of the past decade. Only now have certain publications begun to investigate this theme. The main conclusion of the existing studies is that open innovation has to be managed differently in small companies by contrast to large ones. Moreover, the lessons learned about open innovation in large companies are seldom applicable to small firms. This is expressly the case in so-called low-tech SMEs. Overall, we see a different logic, which I have explained in a report for the Flanders District of Creativity (see www.exnovate.org). As small companies engage more with large partners, an evolution of mentality is necessary to support their efforts to collaborate for shared value creation.
Open innovation can be stretched in even more ways still. Firms or organizations that are not involved in product innovations (e.g. they operate in commodity markets) can nevertheless benefit from the open innovation practices of their peers in an indirect way. It is an exercise in defining strategic levers and determining how other companies’ innovations can help one’s own attain new competitive advantage.
Finally, we see that European countries did not embrace open innovation simultaneously. The Scandinavian countries, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany were fast adopters, whereas Belgium and France have been much slower in this process. I am confident that this book will be a powerful driver in accelerating the adoption of open innovation in France. The book carries a general message supported by all contributors: politicians, companies, and researchers alike. While there are great examples of open innovation in France, too many companies and research institutions have yet to adopt the open innovation imperative. It is my hope that this book will contribute to reversing the trend."
Lire l'interview dans le livre:
"Tous Entre-preneurs ! La croissante du 21eme siècle a l'heure entrepreneuriale". Editions L’Harmattan, Dr. Florin Paun, 2014