Cook Book on Open Innovation!
Renaissance 2.0
Session facilitator
Session organizer
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Unravelling the Open Innovators’ DNA
Anna Trifilova,
Fraunhofer MOEZ,
Germany
John Bessant,
Exeter University Business
School, UK
Despite the importance of OI we still don’t know much about the managers whose job it is to help enable it.
What knowledge, skills and competencies do they need – and how could we help develop them? This
session is an effort to unravel what makes an effective OI manager – the underlying ‘DNA’ of the role and
how we might work to shape it. Join us, contribute and take away useful insights from one of our round
tables:
Open Innovators’ Knowledge
Open Innovators’ Skills
Hannes Erler Director Open
Innovation IG Networks at
Swarovski Professional
tbc
Open Innovators’ Competences
Mark Wilson Director,
Collaboration Management,
Europe, Platform Science
and Technology,
GlaxoSmithKline
To make the session serious fun, we will try to co-create a prototype of OI Manager 2020
(also with help from Innovation Theatre Lab from Denmark).
Preben Friis,
Theatre director and actor,
Denmark
Nadine Roijakkers
KIZOK-Hasselt University,
Belgium
‘Oh brave new world that has such people in it….’
Shakespeare, The Tempest