Collaborative innovation, cocreation, innovation hubs, corporate innovation and innovation ecosystems are becoming increasingly mainstream. This has brought to the fore the issue of how intellectual property rights are apportioned when multiple stakeholders are involved. The more one stakeholder seeks to own the intellectual property rights from products and solutions produced…

The innovator / entrepreneur can bring a wealth of value to any organisation, as their skillset and experience will span leadership, teams, new product or process development and implementation, budgeting, sales and marketing as well as the honed ability to navigate complexity. There are many innovator / entrepreneurs in the…

There is a key factor that influences how an innovation ecosystem forms, the type of innovation ecosystem it is likely to become and the potential scope of its impact. I refer to this factor as ‘Value Capture Scope.’ In simple terms, ‘Value Capture Scope’ is the number of primary stakeholders…

The last couple of years have been full of both opportunities and losses. As a result, the process of innovating has been experiencing rapid innovation in and of itself. It can be hard to keep up. Last year, I was able to focus on the exciting world of ‘innovating innovation’. …

After recently attending a few events and meetings held by others in the know in the innovation and entrepreneurship world, I realised that open innovation is simply not getting the justice it deserves. It is a far more powerful concept than running innovation challenges, conducting hackathons with up-and-coming developers or…

It seems like everyone is trying to jump onto the innovation bandwagon lately. Organisations need to be careful of simply implementing the latest buzz words in innovation. Running an open innovation challenge, inviting others to participate in hackathons or setting up entrepreneurship pitch-a-thons may seem like ‘cool’ and innovative things…