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In a recent WOBI webinar, we hosted a discussion with Dr. Henry Chesbrough of the Program for Open Innovation at Berkeley Haas, as well as speaker at this year’s World Innovation Forum New York 2012, along with Bill Schulz of Walden University. The conversation was focused on open innovation and how companies can begin to incorporate outside ideas/participation/talent, and then develop it to be put back into the market. Here were our top ten takeaways:

1. Innovation is becoming Open Innovation

2. This means it is about taking down the fences around your Research and Development facilities

3. Start breaking down internal silos preventing open sharing of ideas

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