MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Innovation's Future Isn't (Just) Open

The research behind this article, conducted in 2018-2019, included companies in seven industries from Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the U.K., and the U.S.

The authors held in-depth interviews with executives in 30 large corporations across industries and countries to obtain a granular understanding of innovation practices and systems.

They then structured and, through Phronesis Partners, administered a survey to quantify innovation practices and systems, polling innovation leaders at 320 large corporations with revenues of more than $500 million a year and gathering data on 640 innovation projects.

About the Author

Neil C. Thompson (@profneilt) is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, based in Boston. Didier Bonnet (@didiebon) is an executive vice president at Capgemini Invent and a professor of strategy at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Yun Ye is a senior manager in digital strategy at Adidas.

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