Open Innovation

New year, new publication

noreply@blogger.com (Jonas) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:24:00 +0000

We have just presented Open Innovation and Control - A Case from Volvo at HICCS-43.

Among others Frank Piller, Jan Marco Leimeister, JP Allen, Stefan Hrastinski were there and some highlights of the session discussed are:
* Embedded user toolkits
* Collaboration systems supporting Open Innovation
* Generativity and IT design

It feels good to have presented a publication with result from our multi-year project on Open Innovation in Gothenburg. Warm feelings in multiple ways were present and even if there is critical thinking and discussion there were also several connections tied with interest to get involved with forthcoming research.

Happy New Year and look out for more publications. Special thanks from myself and Magnus to our co-author Björn Remneland who at this time opted out on being present here in the beautiful context of Kauai.

Its like comparing Apples with Pears (AnDroid)

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Much exiting happens in the mobile industry for the moment. Attention is moving toward the handheld devices that everyday people walk around in their pockets. One way of seeing it is that organizations now have a chance to approach millions of sensors out in the world, customers using their eyes, ears and brains to collect creative viewpoints into content (text, photos, videos, recorings etc). This is of course increasing in scope when the mobile devices have positioning services, can read temperature and climate data etc. etc. Then the device does not only stay as a private tool (for identidy identificaion, navigation, information search etc), and social tool (conversations, networking etc) but also collects data for organizations to completely transform their business models. Probably for good and for worse.

Two big players are changing the field of mobile industry - none of them coming from traditional mobile industry (supporting Christensens argument in Innovators dilemma). Apple with its well-known success story iPhone, and the upcoming Android, well supported by Google. Apple gets praised for their impressive business model and many companies in various industries are looking to copy their receipt. Google/Android, however, is a future challenger. In a way, one can say it is a competition between "user friendliness" vs "thinkering opportunities", between "slick design" vs ´"variety", between "critical mass" vs "generativity".

Clearly, from a theoretical point of view, the Android approach (open source, less gatekeeping, distributed innovation on both hardware, OS and apps) would benefit the innovation process. "Openness" is a notion that gets applauds by users as well as the media. In the last months, we have for instance seen many new releases of mobile phones (from HTC, Motorola, Ericsson etc) pushing innovation forward. The coming months will be exciting, seeing if also the amount of applications for Android will explode - challenging the critical mass of iPhone.

Openinnovationgbg.se is following this development in the project "Open Innovation in Society", funded by the Swedish Research Council.

See for instance the discussion about the future of mobile industry here (with Steve Gillmor, Michael Arrington, JP Rangaswami, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks and Saul Hansell) discussing the "iDroid wars" from Nov 12th:

Amazon and digital media

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000

An interesting case of digital property issues: Amazon Kindle and its withdrawal (and return) of the book 1984. Short background; in July, Amazon was informed by the US copyright holder that there was an illegal copy of Orwells books 1984 and Animal Farm in the Kindle book store. Amazon therefore decided to erase all the copys of these books, including those that customers already had bought and downloaded into their individual Kindle devices. Read more here. This without asking them first. An uproar against Amazon followed among customers and bloggers.

This case is very interesting, since it put digital intellectual property to test. What is legal? What is fair? Recently, the following message was posted by Amazon, to ask their customers for forgiveness.

This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our "solution" to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.

With deep apology to our customers,

Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO
Amazon.com"

As you were one of the customers impacted by the removal of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" from your Kindle device in July of this year, we would like to offer you the option to have us re-deliver this book to your Kindle along with any annotations you made. You will not be charged for the book. If you do not wish to have us re-deliver the book to your Kindle, you can instead choose to receive an Amazon.com electronic gift certificate or check for $30.

Please email Kindle customer support at kindle-response@amazon.com to indicate your preference. If you prefer to receive a check, please also provide your mailing address.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

The Kindle Team

Bernad Munos at CIP Forum

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:53:00 +0000

Bernard Munos, Strategic thinker at Eli Lilly, reflects on openness as a benefit for society. Bernard is writing about and promoting Open Innovation in the Life Science Industry.

Congratulations Jonas Kuschel

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:33:00 +0000

We congratulate Jonas Kuschel for earning the PhD in Informatics with the dissertation "Vehicle Services", Saturday the 19th of September, 2009. Good Job! Opponent was Tomas Hellström from Lund University.

ABSTRACT

This thesis contributes to our understanding of the development and diffusion of vehicle services, and to how information technology interacts with forms of organization and business models to undermine or support the development of vehicle services. The overall research question asked in the thesis is: what are the technical, business and organizational prerequisites for the development and diffusion of a rich variety of vehicle services? The development and diffusion of vehicle services have been empirically investigated by ethnographic field studies, prototype software development and case studies as part of a collaborative practice research approach involving the Volvo Group. Based on ethnographic field studies of current vehicle repair service work, analytical patterns were identified to better understand the core foundation of vehicle services. In the prototype development, a platform was developed, which allowed exploring the technical prerequisites for the development of vehicle services. Two case studies examined, first, the development of IT support for vehicle services and, secondly, the organization of vehicle service development. The results from all these collaborative practice research activities suggest that the vehicle industry needs to revise its conception of vehicle services as services extending product features in favor of vehicle services enriching the use of the vehicle. Thus, the thesis argues that the lack of vehicle services, rather than being just a question of technical nature, can only be remedied by a change of perspective from products to services, which in turn influences the choice of technology, forms of organization and underlying business models. Vehicle services are here conceptualized as services interacting across the ecosystem of vehicle stakeholders to enrich the customer’s use of the vehicle. Hence, to be really useful, vehicle services must roam organizational and technical boundaries and cannot be treated as properties of the vehicle. This requires vehicle manufacturers to adopt appropriate forms of technology and organization. The concept of information infrastructure is shown to be appropriate since it allows separating services from shared infrastructural resources. Such a separation also allows opening up the development of vehicle services to other service providers. Open innovation is described as a suitable form of opening up the innovation and development of vehicle services to a larger group of service providers. The thesis argues that these three prerequisites – business model, technology and organization – have to closely interact to facilitate the development and diffusion of a rich variety of vehicle services. The general contribution of the thesis is to show how product oriented industries have to revise their proprietary mindset in favor of an open attitude to successfully engage in the development of services.

Read more about the dissertation here.

Clay Shirky on Innovation in Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:06:00 +0000

Listen to a audio from the presentation Clay Shirky held at the conference Innovation in Mind at Lund, Sweden 16th of september, 2009. The audio quality is a bit poor, but the content is good.

Clay Shirky is an well-known Internet Guru and has among others written the book "Here Comes Everybody - The Power of Organizing Without Organizations", discussing the changes in society as the new media landscape forms.

See more about Clay Shirky also on Youtube.

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Innovation in mind - Lund, Sweden - Day 2

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:25:00 +0000

The second day of the conference Innovation in Lund started with three parallell tracks, consisting of 1) User innovation (Franke etc), 2) Open innovation (Chesbrough etc) and 3) Social innovation (Shirky etc). I finally took the choice of attending the Open Innovation track.

The session started with Christopher Lettl, from Vienna University, talking about user innovation in the medical technology area. Fascinating examples of surgents building fantastic and advanced robots and other tools, that have revolutionized industries, on user communities helping each other finding good solutions etc. Second was Mats Lindoff, who has a history from Ericsson and SonyEricsson, presenting the evolution of mobile phones. Mats argued that it needs a quite high amount of technology push until the infrastructure is developed enough to let users in. It took the telecom industry 20 years. Finally, Henry Chesbrough had a presentation on Open Innovation Business Models, highligting the business model as a key driver for generating profit. A "open" platform based business model such as Apple´s AppStore was pinpoined as the optimum, where outside actors spend thousands of research hours to bring in value to Apple´s platform.

After a short coffee break, some sessions about innovation strategies around the world were held, including Curtis Carlson from SRI International (Silicon Valley), Mu Ronping from Institute of Policy and Management from Bejing and after lunch Harvard Professor Amar Bhidé discussing the failure in the financial sector leading to the financial crisis.

The afternoon ended with two parallel sessions, with 1) discussions on how EI can support regional innovation strategies and 2) a younger generation of entrepreneurs discussing the future.

All in all, the event was very interesting. Especially the first day was enlighting and it is nice to listen to inspiring thoughts. True, it becomes evident from the various examples that the notions of Open Innovation and User Innovation are complex, not easily defined. Often the success stories of openness gets more attention and fascination than critical thoughts or failures. But the conference has anyway nurtured new ideas and relations that will hopefully develop over time.

Innovation in Mind - Lund, Sweden - Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:52:00 +0000

The conference Innovation in Mind had a fantastic first day. Bengt-Åke Lundwall (the guy behind the notion innovation system) had a presentation, followed by professor Henry Chesbrough talking about open innovation and Nikolaus Franke about user innovation. Their inspiring examples are captivating. After lunch, a passionate speach from entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi seduced the audience with a lifestory linked to the winding road of creating Coffee Republic in UK. Then Clay Shirky talked about the new media landscape in a very inspiring way - much thoughts are following the argumentation he has in the book "Here Comes Everyone" - about a networked society that do not ask for permission to interupt industries and businesses. The user-innovation guru Eric von Hippel was talking to the audience on videolink fråm MIT, and the day ended with a panel discussion and reflections. Wonderful event. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Reflections on CIP Forum Open Innovation Track

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:21:00 +0000

After months of preparation, CIP Forum 2009 finally took place, and it was great pleasure to meet up with all the interesting people within the Open Innovation Track.

We started on Sunday with Magnus Holmqvist from Volvo IT Innovation Centre, facilitating a workshop on Open Innovation in times of recession. Participating in the session was also Anna Nilsson-Ehle (SAFER), Joakim Fransson (Renova), Christian Björkman (Mindark), Jan Unander (Telematics Valley) and Björn Remneland (University of Gothenburg). The panel discussed various aspects of the open innovation approach, showing the multitude of definitions and use. A thought pointed out was that in times of recession, most probably companies that are close become even closer, but that it also is a potential opportunity for organizations to use the crisis in order to mobilize attention to the innovation areas.

On Monday, Bernard Munos from Eli Lilly had the keynote speech, discussing the need for change in the Life Science Industry, toward increased openness in the innovation processes. He showed in statistics that the rate of innovation has been stable for several decades, despite the advances in knowledge and technology. Something must be done, and Open Innovation might be the solution. He lifted up a couple of examples to emphasis this claim. Good speech, much interesting aspects were highlighted. We had the pleasure to mingle with Mr Munos at several occasions later in the Forum, and he clearly is a bright man. The Keynote was followed by a panel discussion, including Marshal Phelps (Microsoft), Noreen Krall (SUN), Ove Granstrand (Chalmers), and Bernard Munos again.

After lunch, Noreen Krall introduced the Open Innovation Specialization Track, and the first speaker, Keith Bergelt from Open Invention Network. The talk was about how OIN is established to protect Linux development to continue to thrive as an open source solution. It was followed by a wonderful panel discussion with Lucas Hulsmann (Procter & Gamble), Hans Persson (Volvo Technology), Bill Brox (Imego) and Mark Wilson (GlaxoSmithKline), showing how Open Innovation has affected business in many different industries, such as consumer market, automotive and life science.

A coffee break, mingling, and then Christian Björkman from Mindark had a presentation about their fascinating Project Entrophia, a virtual world with its own economy. Extremely interesting and thought provoking. These virtual worlds can be seen as platforms in itself, much like iPhone or other infrastructures – which open up for other actors to create amazing business on. A panel discussion about Open Source and Linux was followed, including Simon Phipps (SUN), Robert Tiller (RedHat) and Jan Ljungberg (IT university). Especially impressed by Mr Phipps pedagogical and professional discussions on why it is logical for participates to not steal the code. “Stealing is possible for usage, but not if being part of continuous development”.

They intensive day ended with a beautifully arranged speakers dinner at the fourth floor on Universeum, in a hall romantically facing a wall to a huge shark aquarium. Good relaxing discussions, and great fun.

Tuesday Open Innovation Track started with an Open Innovation Lunch, with special invited guests. Also here gave possibilities for building social ties. The first session, introduced by Mats Pårup, was Jako Eleveld, presenting Philips movement to Open Innovation. Philips is considered one of the forerunners in applying a IP-based approach to Open Innovation. A panel discussion followed, highlighting organizational challenges in the movement toward openness. Per Adamsson (Volvo Trucks) and Gustav Brismark (Ericsson) gave two perspectives on this process from two different industries. For general discussions, Lucas Hulsmann (P&G) and Mark Wilson (GlaxoSmithKline) also joined. It was clear that the process to Open Innovation is not an easy task. Companies face challenges in organizational structure, culture, technology, intellectual property and a vast number of other areas.

After coffee, Claudio Marinelli from Nokia, had a very inspiring presentation where he presented research on measurements done in Nokia regarding how openness affects innovation in practice. The numbers showed strong correlation between open innovation and productivity as well as innovation. Would be wonderful to hear more about this study in the future.

On the evening, CIP Forum had a closing dinner at Eriksbergshallen with nice food, good entertainment and well deserved highlights on the people making the event a possibility. For the Open Innovation Track, this is specially directed to Noreen Krall, who has done a wonderful job of arranging the Open Innovation Track, with help from the CIP team.

Gov 2.0 - Tim O´Rielly on the next generation of Government

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:14:00 +0000

Tim O´Rielly, founder of O´Rielly Media and the person who is said to have coined the notion of Web 2.0, has a guest posting in TechCrunchs blog, introducing the Gov 2.0, thinking about government as a platform. Interesting thoughts, and in line with the notion of full democracy, with participating and engaged public.

Read the blog post here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/gov-20-its-all-about-the-platform/

Web 2.0 Global Survey Result from McKinsey

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:36:00 +0000

In the McKinsey September newsletter, the result of a three year Global Survey on Web 2.0 is summarized. Nearly 1,700 executives from around the world, across a range of industries and functional areas, answered this years survey. 69 % of the respondents answer that they have benefited from the application of Web 2.0 technologies.

“When we asked respondents about the business benefits their companies have gained as a result of using Web 2.0 technologies, they most often report greater ability to share ideas; improved access to knowledge experts; and reduced costs of communications, travel, and operations. Many respondents also say Web 2.0 tools have decreased the time to market for products and have had the effect of improving employee satisfaction."

Thank you Malin for the link :)

Read more on McKinsey Quarterly

Social Media a Fad?

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:13:00 +0000

An introduction to Social Media, from Socialnomics (Youtube), released earlier this summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

White House goes Open Innovation

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:38:00 +0000

The 4th of August, the US White House sent out a memorandum to the top executives of the agencies and departments regarding "Science and Technology Priorities for the FY 2011 Budget". In it, the Administration explains the prioritization regarding their science and technology activities and funding, stressing the importance to increase the productivity of the research institutes and universities, as well as strenghtening science, technology etc. Further reading in the Obama instructions to his staff:

"Agency budget submissions should also explain how the agency plans to take advantage of today's open innovation model—in which the whole chain from research to application does not have to take place within a single lab, agency or firm—and become highly open to ideas from many players, at all stages. Agencies should empower their scientists to have ongoing contact with people who know what's involved in making and using things, from cost and competitive factors to the many practical constraints and opportunities that can arise when turning ideas into reality. Agencies should pursue transformational solutions to the Nation’s practical challenges, and budget submissions should therefore explain how agencies will provide support for long-term, visionary thinkers proposing high-risk, high-payoff research."

Social media pays off

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Wetpaint/Altimeter Group has recently published a report on the top 100 global brands and their use of varius types of social media to engage with their customers. In their report, which is possible to download for free, it is said in the preface:

"A surprising conclusion: While much has been written questioning the value of social media, this landmark study has found that the most valuable brands in the world are experiencing a direct correlation between top financial performance and deep social media engagement. The relationship is apparent and significant: socially engaged companies are in fact more financially successful."

The list of top ranked brands (high engagement + many channels) in the study is:

1. Starbucks
2. Dell
3. eBay
4. Google
5. Microsoft
6. Thomson Reuters
7. Nike
8. Amazon
9. SAP AG
10. Intel and Yahoo!

Read more on: http://www.engagementdb.com/Report

CIP Forum Info

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +0000

CIP Forum

The global recession is commanding most of the attention of business executives and managers. At the same time, it is more important now than ever for companies to focus on management of innovation to create sustainable growth and adapt business models and operations to the knowledge-based economy. CIP FORUM 2009 focuses on the Future of Innovation as an engine to drive wealth and welfare creation in the 21st century. Central to the discussion is the changing nature of innovation from an industrial to a knowledge-based process and how modern innovation processes are built upon the management of intellectual assets, property, and capital.

New business models in a knowledge-based economy Participating companies such as Eli Lilly, Ericsson, Microsoft, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sun Microsystems, Volvo Technology etc. are contributing with their knowledge based on their experience in handling Future of Innovation issues.

Read more on www.cipforum.org or download this folder:

/Cipforuminfo.pdf

Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship opens up

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:24:00 +0000

Today the official initiation ceremony takes place for the new Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, Ecnonomics and Law, University of Gothenburg. The institute will focus on both education and research and with close collaboration with both Chalmers University and the Sahlgrenska Academy.

http://www.handels.gu.se/iie/

Linköping University announces doctoral student position

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:18:00 +0000

Linköping University has recently posted an ad for a doctoral student position connected to the project "Managing External Knowledge Acquistition".

The project is connected to the VINNOVA call Open and distributed innovation processes.

http://www.liu.se/jobbdb/show.html?2986

Deadline for application 2009-06-30.

Remix Culture

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:56:00 +0000

Two interesting interrelated launches connected to Open Innovation this weekend.

First. The Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig published his new book “Remix – making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy” available free to download as PDF under the Creative Common license (www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm). In it he argues for the need to adjust intellectual property laws to the way the new generation uses technology in their way of expressing themselves and their opinions – by remixing, copying, blending, rewriting, adding to existing culture (music, film clips, texts etc) with own produced material (see for instance www.opensourcecinema.org).

In the act of writing, there is an accepted practice of “citing” – which means that one can borrow quotes from others without asking for permission as long as one puts references. This facilitates for instance the academic open science work to “stand on the shoulders of giants”, boosting ongoing creative conversations. The same approach would in the music and film industry call “piracy”, and there are even ID content algorithm scanning the internet for amateur infringements on such copyright “abuse”. It is clear that Lessig is against piracy in the purest form (distribution for pure consumption against the IP owners’ will). Ways of dealing with these issues must be developed (Spotify is an example of an alternative to the Pirate Bay). However, the solution is possibly not sole prohibition. A very nice presentation held by Lessig on the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in March 2007 is available on Youtube. He ends the session by the following:

“We can not kill creativity, we can only criminalize it. We can not stop our kids to use it, we can only drive it underground. We can not make our kids passive, we can only make them “pirates”. And is that good?”

Second. On the 3rd April, the release of a collaborative, non-profit movie production took place on the web. The movie is called “the Hunt for Gollum”, and is a fan-produced movie inspired by Tolkien´s books and Peter Jackson´s movies “The Lord of the Rings”. The micro budget for filming was less than 3000£, and the director Chris Bouchard describes the work as a “labour of love”. Film effects, music, casting, costumes etc – all was made by enthusiasms, and in the disclaimer of the movie it says; “This work is produced solely for the personal, uncompensated enjoyment of ourselves and other Tolkien fans”.

A nice documentary of the production of the movie can be seen here.

This creative collaborative work would be suspiciously close to infringement of the intellectual property rights of New Line Cinema and Wignut films. However, seen in the past relations between Peter Jackson and the Tolkien fans, the risk of lawsuit is minimal. After all, Jackson has has recently closed a new deal with Stradella Road and Gordon Paddison, who successfully managed to involve the Tolkien fans into one of the most successful movies in history. This is perhaps just the continuation of that dialogue.

Web 2.0.. 3.0.. 4.0...

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:00 +0000

I read somewhere that the notion Web 2.0 has reached far beyond the top of “Peak of Inflated Expectation” at the Gartner´s “Hype cycle curve” (which aims to illustrate the over-enthusiasm for technologies in society).

The notion is interesting in itself, since it aims to define websites with focus on interaction, participation and involvement of users, in opposite to Web 1.0 sites which would be providing one-way information toward passive consumers. As my colleague Kristoffer said on a lunch last week – it is ironic that one calls them 2.0, since Internet the key aspects of Internet have always been about interaction, participation and involvement. That some websites have not been able to fully utilize the interactive opportunities of the new media should not make it eligible to classify them as the standard 1.0.

Anyway, now we see a rapid upgrading process, and discussions about web 3.0 and even 4.0 (where 3.0 is more individualized content derived from web 2.0 platforms, and where 4.0 is up for debate whether it is constant online-sites, real 3D, convergence with biology etc).

Some examples of attempts for Web 3.0 sites would perhaps be the Swedish ventures Newsbrook.se (personalized news site) and totiki.se (an attempt to merge several other web 2.0 sites) although both still in their infancy, and the more diffused iGoogle. An interesting example of Web 4.0 could perhaps be irlconnect.com, which is a Silicon Valley startup aiming to create a visual social network connected to the GPS, Twitter and other technologies to directly link communication to geography. The question from many “oldfashioned” is Do we really wish to be connected always? The answer from the Generation Y is – We already are…

A bit interesting also with irlconnect.com is the (perhaps political) choice of launching the beta-site with only selected web browser compability.

The Swedish Pirate Bay Case in the District Court

noreply@blogger.com (Kristoffer Schollin) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Despite its length in pages, the judgment of the Stockholm district court in the landmark Pirate Bay case is strangely unfulfilling and lacking in substantial reasoning and concrete criteria for us lawyers to sink our teeth in.

The case always had three big points of interest. How will you treat the concept of accessory copyright infringement? How will you calculate an equitable account of profits? And how do you estimate actual damage to the rights owners in the digital media landscape? To these three points was added a fourth one of interest when the district court decided that the defendants all be considered joint perpetrators.

When it comes to the issue of accessory to infringements the district court finds that

1) the Pirate Bay was an effective tool in sharing copyrighted material,

2) the defendants were aware that a large percentage of the site's users were committing illicit sharing of copyrighted material and,

3) that the defendants held such positions within the Pirate Bay that they should be held responsible.

But this does not lend any help to the development of guiding principles when it comes to distinguish one Internet service from another. Any CEO of an internet search engine or user-driven site can quite easily fulfill these criteria. What we need to know is what provided the crucial point to separate them. Such things as the abrasive language and belligerent behavior of the Pirate Bay are mentioned, as is the site's refusal to remove torrents despite being prompted to do so. Would a notice and take-down policy have changed the verdict? The judgement gives scant details on these matters and leaves us already looking to the court of appeals.

The pirate bay verdict

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:03:00 +0000

On Friday 17th of April at 11:00, the court verdict will be announced regarding the Pirate Bay trial. A press conference will be held by the Pirate Bay team online, at 13:00. This will be online, at the website Bambuser, to which a link will be posted on the frontpage of thePiratebay.org.

The message from Pirate Bay:

Regarding Friday

On friday we will get the verdict in the ongoing trial. It will not be the final decision, only the first before the losing party will appeal. It will have no real effect on anything besides setting the tone for the debate, so we hope we win of course.

Since a lot of people and press are really interested in the outcome of this part of the spectrial, we've decided to hold a small press conference on friday at 13.00 swedish time (GMT+1 / CET). It will be held on Bambuser, no-one is invited physically to participate, only digitally.

The URL for the Bambuser-stream will be posted on the front page of the site on friday some minutes before 13. If you're from the press or just interested in hearing our thoughts about the outcome, you are welcome to join the stream and chat.

Ilkka Tuomi in Gotenburg

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:15:00 +0000

The researcher and author Ilkka Tuomi has been invited to Gothenburg by the Open Innovation platform and the IT University. He will hold two presentations on the topic of Open Innovation, scheduled to the 23 and 24 of april.

Ilkka has among others written the well-received book Networks of Innovation. We look forward to his stay.

_____________

Welcome to two exicting open innovation seminars!

The Applied IT department and the "Open Innovation - Open Information" Platform (OPIN) invites you to two seminars with Ilka Tuomi. Please forward the invitation to any interested colleague.

23 April "Theories and Models of Open Innovation"
The seminar will give an overview of open innovation models and theories.
Time: 13.15-15.00
Place: Von Neuman, Floor 3, Department of Applied IT, Forskningsgången 6, House Patricia, Lindholmen

24 April: "When innovation is hard: Does the open source development model work in hardware?"
With examples from a study about open sourced semiconductor designs, the seminar will address the question whether, and under what conditions, open distributed innovation works in hardware projects.
Time: 10.15-12.00
Place: Grace Hopper, Floor 3, Department of Applied IT, Forskningsgången 6, House Patricia, Lindholmen

Mr. Tuomi has been visiting scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain. He has developed research strategy for the Finnish Technology Agency and the Finland Berkeley Information Technology and Society Program, as well as beeing visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research on the new dynamics of innovation networks, working with Professor Manuel Castells. From 1987 to 2001 he worked at Nokia Research Center, Finland, most recently as Principal Scientist, Information Society and Knowledge Management. Since 2005 Mr. Tuomi is founder and chief scientist of Oy Meaning Processing Ltd. He is author of the books "Corporate Knowledge" and "Networks of Innovation", and has published substantially on knowledge management, open source, and open innovation.

Open Innovation presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:11:00 +0000

On the 16th of April, the Open Innovation research team will hold a presentation at the Volvo IT Innovation Centre, Lindholmen, Gotenburg. It will be a short introduction to Open Innovation, tailored to AB Volvo, and also a presentation of the research project to the Volvo staff.

MTC - Creating Business out of Industrial Offerings based on Services

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:32:00 +0000

MTC held a seminar yesterday on the topic "Business out of Industrial Offerings based on Services" in the Volvo Trucks' premises on Lindholmen, Gothenburg. The main purpose was to share learning and experiences from a VINNOVA-funded project "Developing Industrial Offerings". Several industry companies, such as Volvo, AGA, SAAB and ESAB, gave thoughts on their journey toward being more service focused in their offerings. The keynote speaker was Tony Helsham, SVP and head of Volvo Soft Products.

It was an interesting afternoon, where many of the companies highlighted the organizational and cultuarl challenges in the movement toward service offerings. The need to visualize the changes internally as well as externally was put up as one key-take-away.

From an Open Innovation perspective, the seminar was interrelated but not highly overlapping. The discussions were mainly held on services developed and controlled within each firm. Even bigger challenges (and perhaps potentials) arise when the innovation processes involve many actors - from the organizational-, intellectual property- and (information) technology perspective.

VINNOVA meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Björn Remneland) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:26:00 +0000

Last week, the research project participated in a workshop in Stockholm together with the other 11 projects funded in the VINNOVA call "Open and distributed innovation processes". It was interesting to listen to the status in the other projects, and it was obvious that we will find good linkages with at least some of them in the future.

The fact that so many research projects are run on the same topic in Sweden (for three years) makes it a wonderful opportunity to build lasting infrastructural relations. The projects are located in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Linköping, Jönköping, Umeå and Luleå.