Henry Chesbrough quotes
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“Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.”
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“Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”
-- Henry ChesbroughSource : "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.
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“In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.”
-- Henry ChesbroughSource : "Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.
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“No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.”
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“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”
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“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”
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“Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.”
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“To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.”
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“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”
Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.
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“I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.”
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“You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”
Source : Alfred Jarry (2007). “The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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