Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

01/22/2021

Aija Leiponnen from Cornell University will be guest speaking at Garwood's Open Innovation Seminar next Monday, January 25, 2020.

Aija will be sharing insights from her research, "Patent Assertion in Standard Development: Forking through Cooperation" which examines the impact of patent assertion on the direction of standard development.

For more information about the seminar, please visit our website: https://corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/open-innovation-seminar/

01/11/2021

We are officially kicking off our Open Innovation Seminar today with Wim Vanhaverbeke from the Surrey Business School, University of Surrey.

Wim will be covering "Digital Technologies, Business Model Innovation & Innovation Ecosystem Management" with our seminar.

For more information about the seminar, visit our website: https://buff.ly/2XuhQj2

12/31/2020

Thank you for all your support for and involvement with the Garwood Center throughout 2020. Here's to another year of supporting !

Happy New Years from our team to yours! 🎆🎇

12/22/2020

On Saturday, December 26, 2020 join Solomon Darwin, Executive Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the 11th Annual India Leadership Conclave!

In conjunction with the conference’s theme, Professor Darwin will be speaking on “Smart Cities VS Smart Villages - Challenges and Opportunities.” Professor Darwin’s speech will be live-streamed from 4:15-4:45pm.

For more information or to watch the livestream, visit the India’s Leadership Conclave’s website at www.ilc2020.in!

12/22/2020

The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation is also pleased to announce the winners of the Industry Awards 2020! The following awards were awarded at :

💡The Start-up Disruption Award: Tilak Kasturi, Founder and CEO, Predii

💡 The Business Model Transformation Award: Lila Tretikov, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft

💡 Distinguished Contribution to Leadership in Open Innovation: Michael Dell, Chief Executive Officer, Dell

Congratulations to all our Industry Award recipients! For more information, visit our website at: https://woic.corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/industry-awards-2020/

12/19/2020

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Kaja Rangus Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award!

This year’s winners received a plaque and a $1,000 cash award. The awards were presented virtually to the winners at . Congratulations to all the winners!

For more information, visit our website at: https://woic.corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/woic-2020/awards/academic-awards-2020/

12/16/2020

A big thank you to everyone who attended the 7th Annual World Open Innovation Conference .

From December 10-11, attendees joined prominent industry leaders to world-renowned academic researchers where they discussed how to Lead the Global Recovery with !

12/09/2020

2 more days until we officially kick off the 7th Annual World Open Innovation Conference !

Don't miss out on our luminary keynote speakers:

💡 Alexander Osterwalder from Strategyzer speaking on "The Invincible Company: How To Constantly Reinvent Your Organization"

💡Professor Maryann Feldman from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill speaking on "Open Science & The Dark Kinase: Inside-Out Innovation in Big Pharma"

Join us for 2 days full of , , and insightful !

Register now, before it's too late! For registration, please visit us at: https://woic.corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/

12/03/2020

From prominent industry leaders to world-renowned academic researchers to luminary keynote speakers, will focus on Leading the Global Recovery: Turning Threats into Opportunities with Open Innovation.

Join the conversation with innovators around the world as we engage, confront, and brainstorm how can help overcome threats and identify new opportunities through:

🖥 Luminary Keynote Sessions with Alexander Osterwalder
of Strategyzer and Professor Maryann Feldman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill!

📝 More than 60 academic papers and presentations on some of the latest academic work being done in Open innovation!

🔎 Industry Panels featuring top innovators from Microsoft, Dell, Apollo Hospitals, NVIDIA, and other leading companies!

It’s not too late to register for this event! To learn more about the conference and register, visit our website at: https://woic.corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/woic-2020/register/

11/30/2020

At , we will explore tools that can:
💡 Overcome threats
🔍 Identify new opportunities for growth

Join us for 2 days of inspiring keynote sessions, luminary CEO sessions, "Meet The Editor" Shark Tank, and more!

brings together leading academic in open innovation from around the world, and pairs them with some of the most advanced in the world.

📆 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧! To register or learn more about the World Open Innovation Conference 2020 , visit us at: https://buff.ly/2JBj9YN

11/13/2020

This past Tuesday, Henry Chesbrough conducted his first Open Innovation @ Berkeley Webinar which explored the state of Open Innovation during the pandemic. You can now access Henry Chesbrough's Open Innovation @ Berkeley webinar on YouTube!

Webinar topics included:
- How open innovation is accelerating the speed of innovation responses in the pandemic.
- How open innovation is activating users, hobbyists and citizens in the fight against Covid-19
- The role of digitalization in finding new business opportunities in the midst of the pandemic
- Key success factors in implementing open innovation inside your organization

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated the first of many online webinars. If you were not able to make it to this webinar, Henry Chesbrough and the Garwood Team are working to host more in the future.

Professor Henry Chesbrough, "the father of open innovation," conducted an informational webinar on November 10th to discuss the state of open innovation duri...

10/20/2020

Have you registered for yet? If you have not, register NOW before our Early Bird Registration ends on October 29, 2020.

In light of the current pandemic, will focus on discussing how can meet the challenges of our times by: “Leading the recovery: Turning threats into opportunities with Open Innovation”.

Don’t miss our Early Bird Registration prices! Learn more about or register now here:

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