Fall 2016 Newsletter
Global Engagement: China’s CEOs Get Trained in Open Innovation Strategies
On April 16-19, the Center for UC Berkeley Executive Education (CEE) hosted the International CEO Program. According to Solomon Darwin, Faculty Director of the program, the purpose of this conference is to offer CEOs the tools to navigate their companies around rapid...
Glimpse at Approaching Innovation Forum
On April 23-25, the Spring 2013 Berkeley Innovation Forum will be held at Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia. We would like to welcome new members Fidelity, Autodesk, Tyco and Visa Corporation. During this year’s Spring forum, members will have...
CIO and CFO Round Tables
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation uses open innovation to assist mature companies. The center pays particular attention to implementation issues and development of new business models to capture the value of innovative products and services. These topics are...
Berkeley Innovation Forum—Fall 2012
In October 2012, the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation hosted the bi-annual Berkeley Innovation Forum at the Berkeley Skydeck located near the university. This year’s fall meeting was a two-day event focused on discussing open innovation trends and challenges...
Speaker Series
The Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects.
Research Activities
The primary goal of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation is to focus on corporate innovation. The faculty and staff strive to create individual research opportunities, and also fund research for others. Within open innovation, the Center works closely with many...
Inter Departmental Collaboration
The Program in Open Innovation has increased its efforts to work closely with other departments at the Haas School of Business to grant students the opportunity to work with companies on a whole spectrum of innovative ideas. Dr. Chesbrough believes that the primary...
IBI Visiting Scholar Program
UC Berkeley has a renowned reputation around the world for its research activities. Each year the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation receives dozens of proposals from foreign institutes to spend time as a visiting scholar on campus. Though the Center gives each...
Global Engagement
Despite its many activities, the Program in Open Innovation also dedicates much of its time to working with institutes, corporations and governments outside of the U.S. It has been estimated that delegations and representatives from over twenty different countries...
Corporate Engagement
One of the primary goals of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation is to strengthen its relationship and influence with corporations. In an effort to encourage open innovation, Professor Darwin and the Program in Open Innovation, in collaboration with Zazzle,...
Conferences Hosted
In November 2011, the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation hosted the 2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation: Bridging Mass Customization & Open Innovation. The four-day event consisted of a research and innovation...
Berkeley Innovation Forum
The Berkeley Innovation Forum is an exclusive membership group consisting of carefully selected corporate directors who are deeply involved in managing innovation within their company. Many of the members are Fortune 500 corporations, including several large...
World Economic Forum
Dr. Henry Chesbrough has become a world-renowned authority on the topic of open innovation, a term that he is credited with inventing. He is Executive Director of the Program in Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley, where he is also an adjunct...