Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Centre for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He has a unique background as both a practitioner and researcher having spent 10 years in senior product planning and strategic marketing positions in Silicon Valley. His research interests include a focus on innovation; managing R&D; technology-based spin-offs; corporate venture capital; and evolution in high-technology industries in the US, Europe and Japan. His book, Open Innovation, articulates a new paradigm for organising and managing R&D. This book was named a “Best Business Book” by Strategy & Business magazine.