What is at stake?
Open innovation refers to adopting a collaborative and open approach to encourage innovation.
Why is it important?
Adopting an open innovation and collaboration approach allows you to:
➡️ Access complementary skills and resources, promote collective intelligence and thus strengthen the startup's innovation potential
➡️ Stimulate creativity and diversity of ideas and thus respond more effectively to the needs of customers & users
➡️ Reduce costs and risks related to R&D, development, and marketing of new products and services
➡️ Generating new development opportunities and the emergence of disruptive economic models
Three actions to take right now
1️⃣ Adopt an open-source and knowledge-sharing approach
Contribute to the circularity of knowledge by adopting an open-source approach: share research results, data, software, and even business models under a free license, allowing other actors to use, improve, and adapt them to their needs.
2️⃣ Participate in networks of engaged actors
To access new opportunities for collaboration, sharing experiences, and best practices.
3️⃣ Create strategic partnerships
- Identify potential partners (other startups, universities, research centers, suppliers, customers, and even competitors)
- Seek partners who share the same values and objectives to build strong and mutually beneficial relationships
- These partnerships can take the form of product co-development, knowledge exchange, or resource sharing.
📚 Further Reading
📖 Three levels of cooperation (Prophil Study, 2021)
🎧 Open Innovation: How to get started? What are the challenges? (Podcast - Xploration BivwAk! - 10min)
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