Open Innovation

External innovation is a way to broaden your portfolio, not a substitute for internal innovation.

Solving complex problems with crowdsourcing means tailoring the crowd to the problem’s scope.

Lessons on how to balance efficiency and innovation from NASA’s rebel innovators.

Health care consumers are contributing their skills, money, and time to develop effective solutions.

Businesses can innovate and thrive by nurturing a “creator” mindset.

Companies can improve productivity by tapping into free digital goods and paying their own employees to contribute.

A major economic shift is happening — from the experience economy to the coherence economy.

Companies often struggle to establish and run university partnerships effectively.

Many manufacturers can benefit from sharing process innovations rather than keeping them secret.

We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.

Fuse pairs engineers and scientists with providers and patients to improve health care.

Digital innovation can require carefully balancing new capabilities and core competencies.

The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.

Partnering with emerging-market startups is easier if four key factors can be addressed.

Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.

Our biweekly exploration of new business ideas from the corridors of MIT.

Social media provides a game-changing opportunity to support innovation and new product development.

Smartphone maker Xiaomi cultivates user pride through user-centered and open innovation.

Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.

There are five options for structuring intellectual property partnerships, ranging from licensing to joint ventures.