linkedin post 2013-06-30 06:43:57

OPEN INNOVATION was promoted by Henry Chesbrough of the University of California at Berkeley, who ran the Center for Open Innovation. It involved know-how and patent trading to deepen the innovative process by encouraging external collaboration. Sir Tim Berners-Lee used a different model from Open Innovation when he invented the World Wide Web, having no patent and no royalties. The net effect, however, has essentially been the same, with open source collaboration and rich idea exchange. It would be curious to learn of the discussions that led up to the decision to not pursue a patent.

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