The final article in the Open Innovation series addresses the opposite, often overlooked flow: Inside-Out (or Outbound) — how to bring value to internally developed ideas and technologies by taking them outside the company.
But before the tools, the article stresses a crucial point: Inside-Out requires above all a cultural shift. Opening up what has been produced internally — through licensing, spin-offs, partnerships — means moving beyond the logic of industrial secrecy at all costs and seeing internal knowledge as an asset to be valued beyond one's own boundaries. A change that grows over time and demands vision. In the full PDF: the Inside-Out tools and the cultural shift required.
Originally published in Il Giornale dell'Ingegnere (CNI), 1 April 2022.
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