Henry Chesbrough Quotes

• Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Business, Failure, Innovation

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• Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Business, Technology, Ideas

  "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.

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• In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Taken, Patents, Research

  "Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Communication, Effort, Innovation

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