Chapter 6 Build an Open Innovation Capability

Albert Lin is something of a modern-day Indiana Jones. He’s not a treasure hunter, but as a research scientist, he relishes opportunities to work in the field as a National Geographic explorer, riding through the Gobi Desert on horseback in search of ancient structures. It’s not an easy life; he has had to use a high-tech prosthetic leg since he lost his own after an accident in an off-road vehicle in 2016. Undaunted, he recently signed on with Disney+ to document his travels and discoveries.

In 2012, when LISH’s Karim Lakhani and Jin Paik first met Lin, he was on a quest to find the lost tomb of Genghis Khan, an interest he’d developed on an early trip to Mongolia as a student. It soon became ...

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