Collaboration and Open Innovation Approach

This text is extracted from the international study conducted by Prophil "Entreprise & post-croissance" (Enterprise & post-growth)

ECOSYSTEM & COOPERATION: three cumulative levels of engagement (p. 20)

1. Coopetition: The company departs from a conventional approach to the value chain based on bilateral and unbalanced relationships between stakeholders (e.g., client/supplier) to build sustainable and virtuous relationships with its ecosystem.

→ Requires voluntarily developing inter-company and inter-sector partnerships.

2. Commons management: The company cooperates with various public and private actors, surpassing the logic of competition to preserve common goods and collectively manage negative commons (waste, pollution, etc.) at the level of the territory and/or sector.

→ Requires active participation in the governance of actor networks and the pooling of resources (financial, human, innovation).

3. Large-scale cooperation: The company co-builds and shares innovations with as many actors as possible to bring about systemic change in favor of resource regeneration.

→ Requires circularity of knowledge according to open-source principles and the mobilization of actor communities with multiple interests (citizens, universities, non-profit organizations, and private companies...)

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Open innovation means innovating by breaking down silos. (...) It includes all innovation processes done outside research and development teams. It involves innovation processes with employees who are not part of the research teams, as well as with customers, suppliers, partners, and startups to create innovative solutions together.

The current and future challenges are so complex that they require systemic solutions (...) To be creative, to go further, diversity is necessary, and that's how we find solutions.