Open Innovation

Professor: Silverio Zebral

This open innovation course aims to introduce the debate on "if", "why", and "what" considering the emerging role of "open innovation" as a tool to encourage more efficient companies and more effective governments in the 21st century . The course will address how innovations emerge, blur and vanish; strategies to build innovative ecosystems that can be flexible and sustainable in the long term, and techniques to address the obstacles to advancing organizational change, such as risk aversion bias, knowledge/capacity gaps and collective action problems.

TED Talks (recommended):

1. TED Talk “The Next Era of Government”, by David Cameron https://www.ted.com/talks/david_cameron?language=es
2. YouTube “El Futuro del Gobierno”, by Silverio ZebralFilho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys8LqoeVlYw
3. TED Talk “The Era of Open Innovation”, by Charles Leadbeater: https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation?language=es
4. TED Talk “How Great Leaders Inspires Action”, by Simon Sinek: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?language=es

TED Talks (optional):

1. TED Talk “Institutions versus Collaboration”, by Clay Shirky https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration
2. TED Talk “New Open Source Economics”, by Yochai Benkler
3. https://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics

Pre-Readings (All optional. Purchase on your own):

1. Open Innovation, by Henry Chesbrough. [Chapter 2 and 3] https://www.amazon.com/Open-Innovation-Imperative-Profiting-Technology/dp/1422102831
2. Open Innovation, by Henry Chesbrough. [Part 3 – Chapter 9: Open Social Innovation] https://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Innovation-Henry-William-Chesbrough/dp/0199682461
3. Diffusion of Innovations, by Everett Rogers. [Introduction and Chapter 1]. https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rogers/dp/0743222091
4. The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clay Christensen https://www.amazon.com/Disruptive-Innovation-Christensen-Collection-Innovators-ebook/dp/B008527PTO
5. The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good, by Geoff Mulgan [Chapter 4] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Public-Strategy-Mobilizing-Knowledge/dp/0199289646
6. Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience and Brand Value, by Thomas Lockwood. [Introduction] https://www.amazon.com/Design-Thinking-Integrating-Innovation-Experience/dp/1581156685