Grasping the Open School Initiative

Abstract

The paradigm of `How to innovate?΄ is radically changing. While closed R&D labs have long been seen as the place of choice for corporate innova tion, today academics, businesses, and governments alike are moving to wards a paradigm of open innovation. Open innovation calls for the open collaborative co creation of ideas, knowledge, and innovations. In this con text, business university collaboration is increasingly seen as critical to eco nomic performance. The evolution of traditional corporate R&D laboratories and the rise of open innovation and user driven innovation processes are important drivers of this trend, especially from a business perspective. From a university perspective, equally, the importance of knowledge creation in a practitioner context, in comparison to traditional academic knowledge crea tion processes, is becoming more widely acknowledged (Bradley et al. 2004; Möslein 2005; Frank et al. 2007). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]