Open and Closed Innovation : Different Cultures for Different Strategies
Open Innovation is a phenomenon in both research and management practice. Since radical innovation or new business development often require external technologies or ways of commercialization, many firms have shifted from a Closed to an Open Innovation model. However, firms often face difficulties during the implementation. While the implementation effort usually focuses on external ideas and technologies as well as the processes to identify them, cultural challenges are neglected. Philipp Herzog develops a theoretical framework arguing that Open Innovation and Closed Innovation cultures need to be different (e.g. regarding the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome). Based on a multi-respondent survey among 120 R&D employees from three business units of a leading chemical firm, he provides empirical evidence for many of the hypothesized differences in innovation culture.
IUTAM symposium on chaotic dynamics and control of systems and processes in mechanics ; Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Rome, Italy, 8-13 June 2003
In recent years, careful experimental studies have been made to establish the actual occurrence and observability of the predicted dynamic phenomenaComplex dynamics have been shown to characterize the behaviour of a great number of nonlinear mechanical systemswhen the first IUTAM Symposium devoted to the general topic of nonlinear

