Open Innovation part 1

Facilitated by: Scott Wilson

This strand is taking place across the two days and is being jointly organised by CETIS, UKOLN and OSSWatch. These two sessions will develop ideas for open innovation strategies for taking advantage of open content, open standards, open data and open source and for developing more effective partnerships for implementing them.

In recent years it has become increasingly clear that while these "open" agendas are individually useful, there is more that can be done to align them for greater effect - for example, open source implementations of open standards, open source tools for working with open content, and open source community models for sustaining innovation. There is also a greater awareness that we need to be looking more broadly at how we partner with other sectors and other types of organisations to get better value for our investment in innovation activities.

We will look at case studies, at the current state of the art in open innovation, at the range of activities undertaken in the sector, and develop practical ideas for the short, medium and longer term.

Useful links:


 * Transfer Summit
 * Transfer Summit: Open Innovation-Development-Collaboration (blog post)