After defining the Open Innovation paradigm, the article dives into the concrete tools of the Outside-In (or Inbound) flow: how a company can make its boundaries "permeable" to bring value from the outside in.
Universities, research centres, suppliers, customers, startups, incubators and accelerators become sources of new ideas and "frontier technologies" to apply to products, processes and services. The article distinguishes the tools by the type of innovation sought — from solving specific problems to acquiring mature products or technologies — offering an operational map for those who want to genuinely open up corporate innovation. In the full PDF: the classification of Outside-In tools and their fields of use.
Originally published in Il Giornale dell'Ingegnere (CNI), 1 March 2022.
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