The Ohio Third Frontier has announced a new program to encourage open innovation within middle market companies in the state. Open innovation, first widely promoted nearly a decade ago by Henry Chesbrough, professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at UC-Berkeley, occurs when companies look to communities of experts, thinkers and leaders for new ideas, technologies and solutions that help solve their most challenging problems. Open innovation has been utilized by many organizations from consumer packaged goods manufacturers to NASA to generate ideas, bring products to market and advance technologies.
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