Open innovation involving business and academic teams

Inspired by open source management, open innovation focuses on global peer-production through communities, consumers, lead users, research organizations and partners from industries. This talk will discuss open innovation in the context of collaboration between business and academic teams and will illustrate how such a partnership carried out in an open development spirit can lead to innovation.

Session time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:30am - 11:10am

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About the Speaker

Andrew Fennell

Practice Leader - Strategic Growth & Innovation, PERA

 An energetic, innovative and highly motivated leader with strong strategic capability built from a balance of ground-up, hands-on operational experience and academic development. Commercially focussed with a sound understanding of businesses across a number of vertical markets and territories. Experience has been gained delivering in a variety of global roles for Blue Chip FTSE 100 companies encompassing, Technology, Business and Organisational Innovation & Growth, Retail, FMCG, Marketing, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Construction Industries.