Overview

The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation offers a series of programs that enable forward thinking executives to create and develop innovative business ideas.  The programs vary in duration and level of engagement to serve a variety of corporate and executive needs.  Garwood’s Programs for Executives provide a unique opportunity to engage with respected executives and academics on new concepts in business model innovation, Open Innovation strategies and the application of startup models in a corporate context. Business executives interact with each other and with scholars to develop an in-depth understanding in Open Innovation. Each program offered at the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation creates a dynamic experience for business executives.

The center organizes the Berkeley Innovation Forum, a membership conference hosted by Open Innovation expert Dr. Henry Chesbrough that provides a platform for business leaders to create, exchange, and develop solutions to business challenges.  The Chief Innovation Officers Roundtable is an intimate gathering of executives interested in implementation of open innovation and new business models, featuring distinguished guest speakers from some of the most respected  companies.  More recently, the center has developed the World Open Innovation Forum [hyperlink to WOIF], which establishes relationships among academia and industry’s most recognized corporations. The Garwood Center also organizes the World Open Innovation Conference. The conference invites executives of innovative businesses and academic scholars to exchange ideas on innovation and suggest ideas on how to generate new business models.  The Garwood center’s faculty director and Open Innovation expert Dr. Henry Chesbrough offers a unique executive education short course, Corporate Business Model Innovation: How to Identify New Sources of Growth.  The course features distinguished guest speaker Steve Blank, who launched the Customer Development Process and Lean Startup methodologies.

Chief Innovation Officer Roundtable

The Chief Innovation Officers Roundtable is an intimate gathering of executives interested in implementation of open innovation and new business models, featuring distinguished guest speakers from some of the most respected companies

World Open Innovation Forum 

The World Open Innovation Forum is a community of innovation-minded executives who benefit from research on innovation management at the Garwood Center and who share problems and explore solutions to the challenges of managing innovation.

World Open Innovation Conference

To be held December 3-5, 2014, the conference is unique in its outreach and prospective value to both business managers and academic scholars, inviting leading organizations to share their open innovation challenges and leading scholars to present their research.