References for Open Innovation and Beyond

On Wednesday I am giving a keynote talk entitled “Distributed Perspectives on Innovation: Open Innovation, User Innovation and Beyond” at a conference at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

I see the talk as an extension of my ongoing work on OUCI. As with all invited talks, it is a great privilege and honor to be invited to speak at such an event.

For the people who were in the room, I wanted to post some references to the topics I talked about:

• A reading list of references for open, user and cumulative innovation — both my personal recommendations and by citation counts
• A reading list of open source academic publications
• Open innovation research:
• The manuscript of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm.
• The September 2009 special issue of R&D Management, including the oft-cited Enkel, Gassmann and Chesbrough introductory article.
• Community research:
• The paper Karim Lakhani and I did on communities in OI
• Peter Meyer’s talk on cumulative innovation in late 18th century development of the airplane.
• My Business Week column on the difficulty firms have giving up control of communities
• Academic classification questions:
• Should crowd sourcing be classified as UI or OI?
• Is acquiring firms open innovation or not?
• Henry Chesbrough’s comments on Pasteur’s Quadrant and the value of observing industry practice.
• My own work:
• West (2009) law review paper on OUCI and policy
• West and Bogers (2010) paper that we are presenting at Academy of Management 2010
• Blog commentary on increasing internal integration by Nokia and Google

This is not a comprehensive list of the material, but are most of the links where I could find URLs (without an Internet connect) at 38,000' over the North Atlantic en route to giving the talk.

I thought the references might also be useful to new readers of the blog. I hope to post my slides and additional thoughts late this week or next week after I get home.