Live from the Open Innovation Conference!

I’m in Las Vegas and ready for the Open Innovation Conference from Marcus Evans. The conference actually featured an “open innovation strategic IP scenarios” pre-conference workshop this afternoon. Most of the conference participants will arrive on Tuesday morning for a full day of action from 9am until 7pm. We are expecting about 100 people for this particular conference. This is an impressive number and exciting news as it is a signal that more organizations are becoming interested in open innovation and dedicating time and resources to learn more about it.

“Advance innovative ideas through partner collaboration and co-development” is the theme of this conference. In chatting with Dennis, one of the conference organizers, I heard about that philosophy behind this year’s conference. Each innovation conference carries with it an overarching theme and individual workshop tracks that contribute to that theme. The workshop tracks for Tuesday are “dismantling the “not invented here” mentality and “establishing a culture that values open innovation at every level.”

In looking over the conference schedule, I am most interested in these two tracks and the 9 programs that will be presented within the tracks because open innovation represents a departure from the status quo for many organizations and individuals who share in the leadership for the future of innovation in companies. It is an appropriate start that we challenge assumptions about what innovation means and value the role organizational culture plays in making a movement towards open innovation and enabling outside partners more than in the past. I’m going to get some rest tonight and be ready with a few blog entries tomorrow!

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