Networking is at the core of open innovation and it is a socioeconomic process where people interact and share information to recognize, create, and indeed act upon business opportunities. We have all seen cases of collaboration that create effects which are at best additive, delivering a sum of the parts which is less than the sum of each of the individual components. OI 2.0 generates synergies and network effects rather than just additive effects. Synergy describes two or more entities interacting together to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
