Open Innovation
Discover the Open Innovation course: learn the evolution of innovation, from the traditional R&D model to the collaborative one, and obtain tools and practical examples to improve company competitiveness.
Course description
The Open Innovation course provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of innovation and its historical impact. It focuses on the processes of Open Innovation, highlighting the advantages and opportunities it offers. The course equips students with tools to identify and capitalize on these opportunities in their business context.
Participants will learn about Collaborative Innovation models, creating Innovation Hubs, and addressing the crisis in traditional approaches. The course ultimately aims to help companies adopt Open Innovation to drive growth, efficiency, and competitiveness in a rapidly evolving market.
Main topics:
- Theoretical concepts of innovation, historical evolution and definitions
- Crisis of the traditional Research and Development model and the "paradigm shift"
- Open Innovation principles, advantages and models. From product to service and from technology to market
- Case studies and applicability of Open Innovation models. Success stories and failure stories
Course goals
Basic Concepts
Understanding the evolution of the concept of innovation throughout history and the forces that drove this evolution
Change
Presenting the paradigm shift, from the R&D model to that of Open Innovation, and the causes and advantages of this
Processes
Conveying the different Open Innovation processes, highlighting their advantages, opportunities and points of attention
Methodology and Technology
Providing users with the tools necessary to visualize the opportunities derived from Open Innovation in their business context
This course includes
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Examples of real business cases
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Course completion certificate
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Downloadable in-depth content
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Help desk support
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Access from mobile and tablet
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Comprehensive monitoring of educational progress
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Skills assessment test (mandatory)
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Intermediate assessment tests (optional)
Course completion certificate
After completing the course it is possible to obtain a downloadable certificate to display as evidence of the skills achieved. The certification can be combined according to company needs.
Course's lecturer
Caterina Castellani
- Head of Business Unit Digital Education Solutions
- Digital Knowledge Manager
- Years of consolidated experience in ICT Projects
Course's contents
- What is innovation?
- Definition of innovation
- Importance of innovation
- Types of innovation
- Incremental innovation
- Radical innovation
- The crisis of the traditional approach
- Innovation lifecycle crisis
- Innovation lifecycle
- Causes of the crisis
- Innovation and technology
- The role of technology in innovation
- Technological impacts on innovation
- Sources of Open Innovation
- External collaborations
- Use of external resources
- Business model open innovation
- Internal and external innovation models
- Examples of business models
- Inside-out and outside-in innovation
- Coupled processes: Tesla and Pfizer-Biontech partnership
- Framework
- Dimensions of collaborative innovation
- Models of innovation governance
- Innovation Mall
- Innovation community
- Elite circle
- Consortia
- The role of innovation intermediaries
- Functions of innovation intermediaries
- Examples of intermediaries
- Open Innovation 2.0 - ecosystem
- Characteristics of the open innovation ecosystem
- Advantages and challenges of Open Innovation 2.0
- Implementation and tools
- Implementation strategies
- Tools for collaborative innovation
- Setting up an Innovation Hub
- Steps for Setting up an Innovation Hub
- Tools and resources needed
- Case studies and best practices
- Smart working and change management
- The meaning of change management
- The risks of change: defensive mechanisms
- Change management
- A methodology for managing change management effectively
Entry requirements
Access to any browser
PC / Tablet / Smartphone device
Internet connection
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