Where Open Innovation Meets Geo Information

Where Geo-information
meets
Open innovation
A practitioners perspective
Jan Willem van Eck
TU Delft, guestlecture
Delft, April 29th, 2011

“Openness seems to touch every corner of our world”
Maxwell, 2006

Open Innovation

Pratictioners& Researchers
Determined
Decision
Content
Conclusion
1 page
Limited in time
Questioning
Doubt
Method
New question
Compleet
A neverendingprocess

PratictionersvsResearchers
But: practioners are alsoresearchers and researchers are als practitioners (managers)
Proudlyborrowedfrom
Prof. Dr. Ir. A.C.J. (Ton) de Leeuw ©

“…if the GIS market ever does move into the tornado phase, then ESRI is probablygoing to loseitsmarketleadershipposition”
Inside the Tornado, GA Moore

R E S E A R C H &
F I N D I N G S
F U T U R E
R E S E A R C H
I N N O V A T I O N
W H E R E
I S
G E O?
O P E N
I N N O V A T I O N

I N N O V A T I O N

Innovation = invention + bringintocommonusage*
Onlylittle consensus…
Conway, Stewart, 2009

1. What’s the innovation?

Foto: © BildarchivETH-Bibliothek [m]

2. Whobenefitsfrominnovation?

Open Innovation, a new paradigm? !
Chesbrough, 2003

3. Wholeads
the innovation?
BikePortland.org

Image NY Times ©

Consider: “Innovation”
Sometimes not what you think it is.
Sometimes, others benefits more then you do.
Often, users lead, and some more, then others.

O P E N
I N N O V A T I O N

Egoquoting
“Certaincompanies go all the way to appear open”
-> beware of the positivesocialvalue of “openness”
ViMatrix, feb 1996

Open or closed?

Open Innovation- Defined
“Open Innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the market for external use of innovation, respectively”
Chesbrough, 2006.

Existing
market

Existing
market
Exploration
Exploitation

Existing
market
Henry Chesbrough,2004

New market

Theory
What is?
Presence
Core processes
Motives
Factors

Internal Factors
Employees
Processes
Competencies

External Factors
Communities
Networks
Intermediaries
Alliances
Ecosystems
Users

Motives? Newness? Current status?
Increase innovation capacity
Enablefinancialgrowth
Shorter time to market

R E S E A R C H &
F I N D I N G S

Open the books on innovation
Is Open Innovation really new and
which factors are of importance for Open Innovation?
Jan Willem van Eck
Summary thesis
Master of Marketing Strategy, June 21st, 2010

Subquestions
What is Open Innovation?
Which types of organisations are activewith Open Innovation?
Why do organisationsapply Open Innovationmethods?
Which factors play a role in relation to Open Innovation?

Interview structure
Results

Conclusions
2
1
3
Employees
Processes
Competencies

Conclusions
Open Innovation does exist in the Geo-information sector in the Netherlands
Factors of importance are only internal-to-the-organization factors
Top tier innovation projects are hardly related to open innovation concepts

There is an intention to open the books on innovation, now the books on innovation can be opened.

F U T U R E
R E S E A R C H

Suggestion for further research: time

Suggestion for further research:
how different is OI adoption from other forms of management innovation?

W H E R E
I S
G E O?

Egoquoting
“Openness is very relevant
for the use and application of geo-information
Opentrends.nl, 4 feb 2011

Geo-information?
thrivesonopenness
requires a balancedecosystem
optimaldiffusion of knowledge?

Geo-information?
overlapping valuechains?
appropriationsettled, at the start?
Trust as a key factor?

Howonearth…?

Concluding
Opennes and Geo-information are strongly interconnected
An Open Innovation eco system could greatly benefit our sector
A next step, case study research?
We all choose a position
on the open/closed continuum!

Finalthought
Way more smart people
do NOT workfor Esri….
…“all” we have to do is
connect (to) them!

WhereGeo-informationmeetsOpen innovation
@jwvaneck
Jan Willem van Eck
TU Delft, guestlecture
Delft, April 29th, 2011

Suggestedreadings
How open is innovation?, L. Dahlander, D. Gann, 2010, Research Policy.
Open innovation, State of the art and futureperspectives, E. Huizingh, 2011, Technovation.
Open Innovation: Past Research, CurrentDebates, and FutureDirections, U. Lichterthaler, 2011, Academy of Management.

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