Open Innovation - The innovation as a survival business tool
Since last century the corporations are passing throught a transformer process in the way how they innovate their products and services.
Called Close Innovation, this model of innovation worked for decades to the most part of the corporations in the world.
The companies generate their own ideias to develop and put it on the sale market themselves. Over the years, this control turns almost impossible because of two main factors: the employee turnover and the private financing.
The increase of private capital investors motivate the emergence of startups and technology enterprises, which started to buy new ideas belonged only to the big companies until then.
This knowledge democratization expanded the market and forced the conservative companies to rethink the way how to keep their business.
It was then Open Innovation model was consolidated. The innovation model as a part of one market or product in a colaborative and open form.
The technologies or solutions that enterprises need are acquired from others throught partnerships or investments.
Open Innovation Formats
Called Outside-In and it happens when the company bring from outside some technology or intelectual property to develop and comercialize it.
One example of Outside-In is the multinational P&G which in 2000’s brought their best cientists to build a partnership with researches and universities to develop new products and strategies for the business.
In the otherside, the Inside-Out it happens when the company open your own intelectual property or ideas to sale or patenting.
Currently there are enterprises as the InnoCentive that do the business conecction between companies looking for innovate ideas and those which want to sale their solutions.
Open Innovation and Business Sustentability
The innovation investments stopped being a brand differential and became a way to keep the business longevity.
A Innosight research revealed that the business expectation is being reduced over the years.
More than a half of the 500 biggest companies in the world are working with startups currently according to data published by Forbes.
The research also revealed that 61,7% of the unicorns had at least once an investment from a big corporation.
Revealing the tendence of Open Innovation as a predominant model in the post-modern market.
Detain all of the intelectual propriety or projects is almost an impossible task in the currently technology globalization which we are living.
The knowledge exchange benefits not only the business profitability but also all of the population which can count with innovative products and services.
The competition and solutions diversity also can aswer different population needs for a price more acessible.