Many large corporations talk of transforming themselves to embrace open innovation, and opening up to external ideas. But grand strategic statements and new corporate PowerPoint slides do not change the capabilities of an organisation. The implementation of a more open approach rests also on the development of specific skills among individual employees. Research has identified what some of these skills are, and shown that these can be internally developed or accessed via various intermediary organisations. Much of this research on open innovation has focused on the ways in which corporations - predominantly large multinationals - have transformed themselves, or are attempting to do so. However, there is much less discussion on the ways in which one particular type of open innovation partner - universities - also need to develop new capabilities.
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