 Ammon
Salter, UK~IRC and Imperial College London. Ammon
is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial
College London and Research Director of the UK~IRC. His main
research interest is the management of technological innovation,
examining
how organisations can harness external networks to help them
innovate more successfully. He is also the UK representative on
the EU Commission’s
High Level Panel on Measurement of Innovation, developing a
second headline target indicator for Europe 2020. |
 Joel
West, Keck Graduate Institute. Joel is Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
at the Keck Graduate Institute, one of the seven Claremont Colleges.
Major areas of interest include entrepreneurial opportunities due to
technological change; innovation adoption strategies, particularly
related to open innovation; clean technologies, particularly renewable
energy such as solar and biofuels; product strategies in the IT industry,
including product compatibility standards, the growth of open source
and free software and wireless telecommunications. |
 Henry
Chesbrough, UC Berkeley and ESADE. Henry Chesbrough
has published four books on open innovation, starting with Open
Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology.
Henry is an Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Garwood
Centre for Corporate Innovation and Centre for Open Innovation at Haas
School of Business and Esade Professor at the Department of Information
Systems Management at ESADE Business School. His research focuses on
organising, structuring, and managing internal and external research
and development; technology-based spinoffs and corporate venture capital;
intellectual property, and comparative industry evolution in high-technology
industries between the US, Japan, and Western Europe. |
 Wim
Vanhaverbeke, Hasselt
University, ESADE and Vlerick Business School. Wim studied philosophy
and economics at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained a DBA
at the IESE-business school in Barcelona in 1995. He is currently Professor
of Strategy & Organisation at the Hasselt University (Belgium)
in the Department of Business Studies and is appointed as visiting
professor of “Open innovation” at ESADE (Spain) and the
Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management (Belgium).His research focuses
on alliances and acquisition of external technological capabilities;
alliance management, as well as new business development and corporate
venturing. |
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