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- Title
The Open Corporation.
- Authors
Wagner, Harvey K.
- Abstract
The article discusses the problems associated with maintaining a culture of innovation in U.S. corporations. Although many large corporations in the U.S. have research laboratories that generate innovations of science and technology, the main problem has been in moving them to the market. Difficulties of U.S. universities in coping with the innovations-transfer process are looked at. The author notes that, despite the burgeoning of university technology-licensing offices, an effective catalytic agent connecting innovation source and innovation user has been lacking. A model for an open corporation for fostering and marketing innovation is discussed. The open corporation provides a platform in which the three elements of innovations transfer -- innovation sources, "catalytic" entrepreneurs, and innovation users -- combine their efforts to accomplish the transfer process.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; INDUSTRIAL management; TECHNOLOGY transfer; AMERICAN business enterprises; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; TEKNEKRON Communications Systems Inc.; ELECTRONIC industries; INNOVATION management; ACADEMIC-industrial collaboration; INNOVATION adoption; ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Publication
California Management Review, 1991, Vol 33, Issue 4, p46
- ISSN
0008-1256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/41166672