We live in an age of exponential technology, but this is not so new. Indeed, technological innovation has been promoted so assiduously for so long that there is now a discernible pattern to its emergence known as the Gartner Hype Cycle. Open innovation is no exception. In this book Henry Chesbrough, the originator of open innovation, examines the hype behind its practice, shows where real results are taking place, and explains how companies can move beyond the hype to achieve real business results.
The book begins with an exponential paradox; new technologies are emerging at an accelerating rate, yet we continue to see stagnant wages and lagging production. These realities are hard to reconcile with the promise of exponential technologies. A closer look suggests that exponential advocates are paying too little attention to the broad dissemination and absorption of a new technology before it delivers real profit and social benefit.
To get valuable results from innovation, businesses must open up their innovation processes and finish more of what they start. They need to open their knowledge flows to generate new growth, and unused internal knowledge must flow openly to others to generate new revenue and future business opportunities. Many of the best known aspects of open innovation such as crowdsourcing, open source software, or innovation intermediaries are often not well connected to the rest of the organization. Using numerous real-world examples of these methods in practice, Chesbrough illustrates how they can, and must, be used in connection to the organization as a whole in order to have real long-term value.
Open Innovation Results offers a clear-eyed view of the challenges and realities that limit the ability of organizations to create and profit from innovation. Whether in the largest companies or in a small business, an advanced economy or a rural village, this book charts a course to enhance organizational growth and performance.
我們生活在一個指數技術的時代，但這並不算新鮮。事實上，技術創新已經被如此努力地推動了這麼長時間，以至於現在出現了一種可辨識的模式，稱為Gartner Hype Cycle（高德納炒作循環）。開放創新也不例外。在這本書中，開放創新的創始人Henry Chesbrough探討了其實踐背後的炒作，展示了真正的成果出現在哪裡，並解釋了公司如何超越炒作以實現真正的商業成果。
這本書以一個指數悖論開始；新技術以加速的速度出現，但我們仍然看到工資停滯和生產滯後。這些現實與指數技術的承諾難以調和。更仔細地看，指數倡導者對於新技術在實現真正利潤和社會效益之前的廣泛傳播和吸收關注不足。
為了從創新中獲得有價值的結果，企業必須開放其創新過程，並完成更多他們開始的項目。他們需要開放知識流，以產生新的增長，而未使用的內部知識必須向他人自由流動，以產生新的收入和未來的商業機會。許多最知名的開放創新方面，如眾包、開源軟體或創新中介，往往與組織的其他部分連結不佳。Chesbrough使用許多實際案例來說明這些方法如何以及必須與整個組織相連接，以便具有真正的長期價值。
《開放創新成果》提供了一個清晰的視角，來看待限制組織創造和從創新中獲利的挑戰和現實。無論是在最大的公司還是小型企業、先進經濟體還是農村村莊，這本書為增強組織增長和績效指明了方向。
Henry Chesbrough,
Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Henry Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He is also the LUISS Chair Professor of Open Innovation at LUISS University in Rome. He is the author of several management books on innovation:
Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011),
Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), and
Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). He has won numerous awards for his work, including two honorary doctorates, the IRI Medal of Achievement, and the Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission. He has been named in the Thinkers 50 list of top management thinkers four successive times, and recognized as one of the top 50 business and technology leaders by Scientific American.
亨利·切斯布羅（Henry Chesbrough），加州大學伯克利分校哈斯商學院企業創新加教授及教學主任
亨利·切斯布羅是加州大學伯克利分校哈斯商學院企業創新加教授及教學主任。他同時也是羅馬LUISS大學開放創新LUISS講座教授。他是幾本有關創新的管理書籍的作者，包括《開放服務創新》（Open Services Innovation，Jossey-Bass，2011年）、《開放商業模式》（Open Business Models，哈佛商業出版社，2006年）和《開放創新》（Open Innovation，哈佛商業出版社，2003年）。他因其工作獲得了多項獎項，包括兩個榮譽博士學位、IRI成就獎章以及歐洲委員會的創新燦爛獎。他四度入選《Thinkers 50》全球頂尖管理思想家名單，並被《科學美國人》評選為50位頂尖商業與科技領袖之一。
