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Implementing Open Innovation

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Research-Technology Management, 50 (2): 21--25 (2007)

Abstract

In "Connect & Develop Complements Research & Develop at P&G" (RTM, March-April 2002), Nabil Sakkab described the company's then new strategy of using corporate intranet and "smart" reporting systems to create what was essentially ä global lunchroom." Since then, P&G has advanced its "connect and develop" strategy for open innovation to a point where a little over 50 percent of its pipeline and products in the market have an external technology or an external C&D connection. This has not been achieved by outsourcing R&D but, its developers say, by "insourcing creativity" and by fostering co-invention-based interaction with outside resources, as opposed to the conventional transaction-based orientation. Moreover, they see no reason why smaller companies cannot emulate P&G's experience in developing an R&D-building innovation capability based upon this new connections model.

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