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
