Where Geo-information

meets Open innovation

A practitioners perspective

Jan Willem van EckTU Delft, guest lecture Delft, April 29th, 2011

“Openness seems to touch every corner of our world”

Maxwell, 2006

Science

StandardsSource

Courseware Services

CloudData

Government

Open Innovation

Pratictioners & Researchers

• Determined• Decision• Content• Conclusion• 1 page• Limited in time

• Questioning• Doubt• Method• New question• Compleet• A never ending process

Pratictioners vs Researchers

But: practioners are also researchers and researchers are als practitioners (managers)

Proudly borrowed from Prof. Dr. Ir. A.C.J. (Ton) de Leeuw ©

“…if the GIS market ever does

move into the tornado phase,

then ESRI is probably going to

lose its market leadership

position”

Inside the Tornado, GA Moore

I N N O V A T I O N

O P E NI N N O V A T I O N

R E S E A R C H &F I N D I N G S F U T U R E

R E S E A R C H

W H E R EI S

G E O?

I N N O V A T I O N

Innovation = invention + bring into common usage*

Only little consensus…

Conway, Stewart, 2009

1. What’s the innovation?

Foto: © Bildarchiv ETH-Bibliothek [m]

2. Who benefits from innovation?

Open Innovation, a new paradigm? !Chesbrough, 2003

BikePortland.org

3. Who leads the innovation?

Image NY Times ©

Consider: “Innovation”

• Sometimes not what you think it is.

• Sometimes, others benefits more then you do.

• Often, users lead, and some more, then others.

O P E NI N N O V A T I O N

“Certain companies go all the way to

appear open”

-> beware of the positive social value of

“openness”

ViMatrix, feb 1996

Egoquoting

Open or closed?

Open Innovation- Defined

“Open Innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the market for external use of innovation, respectively”

Chesbrough, 2006.

Existing

market

Exploration Exploitation

Existing

market

Existing

market

Henry Chesbrough, 2004

New market

Theory

Presence

Factors

Motives

What is?

Core processes

Internal Factors

Employees

Processes

Competencies

AlliancesEcosystemsUsers

External Factors

Communities

Networks

Intermediarie

s

Motives? Newness? Current status?

Increase innovation capacity

Enable financial growth

Shorter time to market

R E S E A R C H &F I N D I N G S

Open the books on innovation

Is Open Innovation really new and which factors are of importance for Open Innovation?

Jan Willem van Eck Summary thesis

Master of Marketing Strategy, June 21st, 2010

Subquestions

• What is Open Innovation?• Which types of organisations are active with

Open Innovation?• Why do organisations apply Open Innovation

methods?• Which factors play a role in relation to Open

Innovation?

Interview structure

Results

Conclusions

Employees

Processes

Competencies

12

3

Conclusions

• Open Innovation does exist in the Geo-information sector in the Netherlands

• Factors of importance are only internal-to-the-organization factors

• Top tier innovation projects are hardly related to open innovation concepts

There is an intention to open the books on innovation, now the books on innovation can be opened.

F U T U R E R E S E A R C H

Suggestion for further research: time

Suggestion for further research:

how different is OI adoption from other

forms of management innovation?

W H E R EI S

G E O?

“Openness is very relevant

for the use and application of geo-

information

Opentrends.nl, 4 feb 2011

Egoquoting

Geo-information?

thrives on openness

requires a balanced ecosystem

optimal diffusion of knowledge?

Geo-information?

overlapping value chains?

appropriation settled, at the start?

Trust as a key factor?

How on earth…?

Concluding

• Opennes and Geo-information are strongly interconnected

• An Open Innovation eco system could greatly benefit our sector

• A next step, case study research?

• We all choose a position on the open/closed continuum!

Final thought

Way more smart people do NOT work for Esri….

…“all” we have to do is connect (to) them!

Where Geo-information

meets Open innovation

@jwvaneck

Jan Willem van EckTU Delft, guest lecture Delft, April 29th, 2011

Suggested readings

• How open is innovation?, L. Dahlander, D. Gann, 2010, Research Policy.

• Open innovation, State of the art and future perspectives, E. Huizingh, 2011, Technovation.

• Open Innovation: Past Research, Current Debates, and Future Directions, U. Lichterthaler, 2011, Academy of Management.