- Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough coined the term
Open Innovation and is the author of . He has also written two other books on open innovation: Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (HBS Press, 2006) and Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006).Chesbrough is currently an Adjunct Professor and the Executive Director of the
Center for Open Innovation at theHaas School of Business at theUniversity of California, Berkeley . Prior to Haas, he taught at theHarvard Business School as an Assistant Professor and Class of 1961 Fellow from 1997 - 2003.Chesbrough holds a BA in
Economics fromYale University , anMBA fromStanford Graduate School of Business , and aPhD from theHaas School of Business at theUniversity of California, Berkeley .Dr. Chesbrough's work has spawned a number of ventures seeking to transform Open Innovation from a school of thought to a school of practice. These companies include
Innovation Exchange , [http://www.fellowforce.com Fellowforce] , [http://www.ninesigma.com NineSigma] , andInnoCentive .External links
* [http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/chesbrough.html Profile at UC Berkeley Haas School]
* [http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/ Center for Open Innovation]
* [http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/2007/11/professor-henry-chesbrough-on-open.html Video Interview with Professor Chesbrough]
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