Open Business Models: How To Thrive In The New Innovation Landscape

Notes

Chapter 1

1. For a thoughtful summary of the problems confronting innovating U.S. companies, see Richard Rosenbloom and William Spencer, Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial R&D at the End of an Era (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996). More recent concerns have been ably voiced by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness in its report, “Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change” (Washington, DC: U.S. Council on Competitiveness, 2005). In Europe, see the Lisbon European Council conference report, calling on European governments to forge “the leading knowledge economy in the world” by 2010 (European Council, Brussels; see http://www.consilium .europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/00100-r1.en0.htm for ...