A phenomenon in which people are biased against externally developed prototypes or ideas.
A niche involves focusing your business on a segment of a market it can effectively reach and serve.
A controlled environment in which organizations can test and experiment with new technologies and ideas without the risk of failure.
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating a new business venture, typically with considerable risk and effort. Entrepreneurship creates and extracts value and drives economic growth in society.
Starbucks' open innovation experiment, My Starbucks Idea, allowed customers to participate in the product development process, generated new ideas, and fostered customer engagement.
Overcoming internal barriers to collaboration is crucial for successful open innovation, including acknowledging the "not invented here" syndrome, bridging credibility gaps, and being generous.