We have seen the example of Apple and its iPhone, result of extensive collaborations with startups to produce a best-selling product.
We are here in the very competitive sector of electronics products, with short cycles, intense competition on price, customers with high expectations ... in short all the factors requiring the use of Open Innovation to reduce risks and take a strategic advantage over the competition.
Open Innovation is the idea that a company can create value (product and services) not only by its internal workforce but as well through collaborations, licensing & spin-off. 
This is our first article intended for inventors and more precisely for public researchers. Traditionally, researchers (including myself) release their work to the rest of the world through publications in scientific journals. 
Today the team of PRESANS was invited to participate to the press conference organized by the French Ministry of Research about the new service that they are launching early 2010: a website to facilitate collaboration between academia and industry. 
In our article "The Golden Age of Closed Innovation Closed", we gave a definition of "Closed Innovation", and we explained how and why this type of innovation management had appeared and were necessary conditions of its success. In particular, we explained that
Open Innovation starts to be a very popular topic in Europe. This has been the case for much longer in US (since 15-20 years ago). Open Innovation will be the subject of a series of forthcoming articles. Before being open, innovation was closed. 
The expression "open innovation", coined by Henry Chesbrough in 2003, has become increasingly fashionable in Europe and large industrial groups are looking for ways to implement "open innovation". 
PRESANS is an "Open Innovation Intermediary", based in France. Before explaining what this is, we will first speak about innovation, about the latest trends in innovation management, open innovation etc. 