Open Innovation Workshop 12 and 13 June, 2019
Event details
The digital age has brought new ways to generate, share, store and retrieve information and knowledge that fundamentally impacts how firms manage their innovation process. A growing number of organizations, in various industries, are experimenting with new forms of OUI; a model that relies upon users (customers and consumers) and communities to solve technical and organizational problems.
OUI transcends organizational boundaries. Many managers are letting go of the traditional logic of managing knowledge for innovation that may reside inside or outside the organization, and instead finding new ways to manage the entire ecosystem where partners are co-creating new solutions that they can only establish together.
This presents a number of opportunities and challenges, of which the practical, theoretical and policy implications are still being explored. Currently, the academic and practitioner understanding of OUI is unevenly spread and an opportunity exists to develop a community of interest based at the University of York that will benefit all partners.
Programme
Topics and speakers at this event will include:
- An introduction to The Risk, Innovation and the Economy (RIE) research theme at York Management School
Professor Deborah Roberts and Dr Beatrice D’Ippolito
RIE conducts management research in a world of technological, service and process innovation while managing the risks and challenges that these changes entail. - An overview of OUI in the US and Europe: challenges and opportunities
Professor Frank Piller - Hot topics in OUI, and the development of a future research agenda
Professor Gloria Barczak - The Weir Innovation Network
Jamie Cummings - The challenges of OUI for policy actions at the micro and macro level
Professor Stephen Flowers - When does and when doesn’t OUI work?
Professor Abbie Griffin - The clash of cultures between open and closed innovation from the perspective of an intellectual property lawyer: How might such conflicts be resolved?
Dr Peter Harrison
The workshop co-organisers
Professor Deborah Roberts is Professor of Innovation/Marketing at the York Management School, and member of the of the OUI community, the Product Development Management Association, and the Technology, Innovation and Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Her research interests sit at the nexus of marketing and innovation and include OUI, the co-creation of products and services, social media marketing and how this is changing marketing theory and practice. This work has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the European Journal of Marketing.
Dr Beatrice D’Ippolito is Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management and Innovation at York Management School, and is a member of the Technology, Innovation and Management Division of the Academy of Management. Beatrice specialises in design-based innovation and how this cuts across firms and industries. She has also developed interest in collaborative research at both individual level (applied to the case of neutron scientists) and firm level (applied to the case of renewable energies), which provides an interesting perspective on existing OUI debates.
Speaker biographies
Professor of Management and Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH Aachen University, School of Business and Economics, Professor Piller was one of the founding professors working with Professor Erik von Hippel to form the first OUI consortium.
Professor Gloria Barczak is Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Boston, MA. Professor Barczak is former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM).
Professor Stephen Flowers is Professor of Management (Innovation) at Kent Business School, University of Kent. His research focuses on users and new forms of innovation, and his work has influenced academic, policy and professional practice in the UK and internationally.
Professor Abbie Griffin is the Royal L Garff Presidential Chair in Marketing, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah and Associate Dean of Business innovation, School of Medicine-Operation. Professor Griffin is known for her seminal work on “Voice of the Customer”, and more recently research on Serial Innovators.
Jamie Cummings is the Process and Project Management Lead for the Weir Group PLC.
Dr Peter Harrison is based at the York Law School. Peter gained postdoctoral experience in neuropharmacology before qualifying as a solicitor. He has litigated high-profile chemical and pharmaceutical patent cases in the English High Court and Court of Appeal, Trial and Appeal Divisions of the Federal Court of Canada, the European Court of Justice and the European Patent Office. Dr Harrison has also served as an advisor for multinational corporate entities, universities, NHS trusts, SMEs and spin-outs on IP exploitation, licensing, and securitisation. He has acted for investment banks, private equity and corporate entities on the IP and chemical/pharma regulatory aspects of corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions) and in relation to IPOs and other equity issues (including on the London, Frankfurt and Copenhagen stock exchanges and London AIM).
Peter’s research focuses on the interface between biological innovation and intellectual property protection. He was awarded a PhD in Law for his work on indigenous peoples' right to protect their traditional therapeutic knowledge and genetic resources from misappropriation.
Open Innovation Club
One of the aims of this event is to build a research club around open and user innovation, drawing on a community of both academics and practitioners. Attendees will be invited to join the newly-formed York Management School research club to continue as a network and provide members with further collaboration opportunities. The Open Innovation Club will regularly host themed presentation and workshop events and engage in collaborative research projects.