Talk by Dr. Steven Fraser, Innoxec, Silicon Valley, California.
Abstract - Open Innovation, through partnerships across a community such as a network of university researchers, is an alternative mechanism to stimulate corporate growth and build value in contrast to proprietary innovation. This talk reports on strategies observed at North American technology companies including BNR, Northern Telecom, Qualcomm, Cisco, Bell Labs, Lucent, and Alcatel-Lucent. Strategies included a range of tactics focused on leveraging intellectual property portfolios; benchmarking processes and products; recruiting experienced technical talent; cost avoidance and reduction; and philanthropy.
Steven Fraser is based in Silicon Valley as the Principal Consultant for Innoxec (Innovation Executive Services) and has served as an innovation catalyst with global influence for four Fortune 500 Companies (HP Labs, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Nortel). In addition to a year as a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) consulting on Domain Engineering (software reuse) and team practices he has organized over 75 software engineering conferences, panels, workshops, and tutorials. Steven holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering (specification validation) from McGill University in Montréal, Canada and is a senior member of both the ACM and the IEEE. His interest focuses on alleviating the “soft” challenges (e.g. teamwork, collaboration, design trade-offs, decision making, etc.) of developing and deploying products highly dependent on software and brokering industry-university research collaborations to leverage open innovation strategies.
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