Book spotting on a new level: Leading Open Innovation on TV at Flughafen München! No wonder this airport is a five star hub and top innovator! If you missed Sarah Wittlieb’s innovators journey, you can still find the video at: http://www.br.de/…/bay…/programmkalender/sendung-906586.html

Just back from teaching in Tunis I would like to introduce to all of you the most impressive group of DICAMP students! Working with them is simply amazing …. I am sure you would like to learn more about DICAMP? Just look at: www.dicamp.eu

Again, THANK YOU to our leading book spotter, Frank T. Piller, Professor at RWTH Aachen and Director of the MIT Smart Customiziation Center, for pointing us to the current issue of MIT Sloan Management Review that prominently features the book “Leading Open Innovation”!!!

A very warm thank you goes to Frank T. Piller who pointed us to this nice MIT Press book exhibition at this year’s Academy of Management (AOM) meeting in Orlando, Florida. Too bad that I did not make it to the AOM meeting this year. More importantly, however, I would like to suggest you have a look at the chapter on “Co-Creation with Customers” by Frank T. Piller and Christoph

At the recent conference “Leadership for Innovation – Visualizing the Invisible” run by the Peter Pribilla Foundation at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study in Munich / Garching, book spotting turned out to be a fruitful and rewarding exercise … 200 books in bags … what a nice surprise for all conference participants and a picture worth sharing! Just click on the image to see the full army of book

I just had pasta in an Italian restaurant in Munich Schwabing and THIS is what I spotted there: “Leading Open Innovation” editors Anne S. Huff and Ralf Reichwald obviously having fun reading the book over a beer … try it yourself: get a copy of the book, find a nice restaurant, a nice neighbour and a read a chapter together … this will make Open Innovation work and you take

Thank you, dear colleagues from CEEMAN, for the nice surprise and for featuring “Leading Open Innovation” in your latest newsletter! We trust the book will provide fruitful insight for leaders and their organizations across Eastern Europe. In case you would like to discuss with us, what the international experiences discussed in the book mean for your organization, please do not hesitate to contact us! Kathrin   Tweet

The term Open Innovation has been used for less than a decade. To understand why it works, and does not work, it is helpful to consider underlying concepts that have been discussed for a longer period of time.  “Democracy” is my candidate for the most important of these foundations.  Its direct application to innovation comes from Eric Von Hippel’s book Democratizing Innovation, which can be downloaded from http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/index.html  under a

In September 2012, Clayton Christenson, the Harvard Professor especially well known for his work on innovation as creative destruction,  praised the potential of open innovation, but blogged that “scholars (and, I would add, managers) need to be very careful with their definition of what open innovation is …. The benefits of using a precise and specific definition for open innovation [are] that we can more clearly study it and understand

Book author Frank Piller has sent us the attached foto of the shop window of the MIT Press Bookstore in Cambridge MA. Thank you so much! Let’s do some “BOOK SPOTTING”* … Where did you find your copy of “Leading Open Innovation”? Where would you like to see the book? Did you see it in the obvious places or did it come as a surprise at an unexpected spot? *