[Ip-health] Has the Idea of Open Collaborative Innovation Come of Age? – A Focus on the World Economic Forum 2008

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The principal theme of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2008 in
Davos is the *"The Power of Collaborative Innovation"*. Looking at who is
going to be at Davos, one cannot help but be tempted to declare that the age
of open and collaborative innovation, hitherto a subject championed mainly
by civil society and academic movements, such as the access to knowledge
(A2K) movement, is finally here. The recognition by the WEF of the power of
collaborative innovation is no doubt, an important development. However, the
question remains whether the discussions in Davos herald the coming of age
of the idea of collaborative and open innovation as the dominant theory in
innovation policy thinking. Will the discussions in Davos lead to an
important shift in the mainstream thinking about the power of collaborative
in innovation? Will there be a new understanding of the wealth of networks,
as Yochai Benkler puts it? What about openness?
IQsensato addresses these questions and other issues in its Focus piece this
week. Read more at http://www.iqsensato.org/.

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