Marcus Holgersson has been assigned by the Swedish Government to the Advisory Council of the Swedish Intellectual Property Office. The council should exercise transparency and give advice to the Director General.
Ove Granstrand is currently attending the 28th Coalition Theory Network (CTN) Conference in Paris on the 22-23 of May.
CTN is an association for the advancement and diffusion of research in the areas of network theory, coalition formation, game theory and related areas for thirty years. The annual workshops have brought together international groups of scholars to discuss and present recent developments.
For more information on the conference and CTN, see:
https://ctn2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
Ove Granstrand is currently a visiting researcher in Grez-sur-Loing.
A picture of Grez-sur-Loing by Pierre Poschadel – own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34697979
The first book chapter, entitled “Development of the Osseointegration Ecosystem and Nobel Biocare”, is authored by Ove Granstrand. The book chapter is to be included in the forthcoming book celebrating the 60 year anniversary of the use of osseointegrated dental implants, edited by Tomas Albrektsson and Bruno Chrcanovic.
The chapter focuses on the development of osseointegration and Nobel Biocare from an economic and managerial perspective. Based on interviews, open documents and patents it shares the story of an emerging innovation ecosystem centered around one core technology.
The second book chapter, entitled “IP Management in and of Innovation Ecosystem”, is authored by Ove Granstrand and Maximilian Forsell. The book chapter is to be included in the forthcoming “Handbook on Business Ecosystems and Management of Business Ecosystems”, edited by Peter Williamson and Arnoud de Meyer.
The chapter focuses on the roles of IPRs, patents in particular, and IP management in shaping and governing innovation ecosystems. Four empirical cases in telecommunications, video cassette recorders, dental implants and Covid-19 vaccine development are presented and compared.
By Marcus Holgersson
Over the past two years I have worked on this special issue together with Henry Chesbrough and Marcel Bogers. I am happy and proud to finally see it published. In this issue we have collected a number of really interesting articles. Even though this special issue celebrates the 20 year anniversary since Henry Chesbrough´s seminal book on the topic, it primarily covers important grounds for the next 20 years. It includes how new technologies, including AI, impact open innovation, how to effectively and efficiently organize it, both internally and with external stakeholders, and how to develop and implement strategies for open innovation.
We want to thank all authors (see below) for contributing to this issue. We also want to thank the CMR editorial office, including David Vogel, Kora McClain-Gonzalez, Gundars Strads, and Paul Lee, all the reviewers who helped to greatly develop the articles, as well as all authors of articles that didn’t make it all the way through to publication. (Just as open innovation, a special issue process includes elements of both collaboration and competition.)
Linus Dahlander, Ann-Kristin Zobel, Lukas Falcke, Krithika Randhawa, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Paavo Ritala, Ntorina Antoni, Sharon Dolmans, Christina Giannopapa, Isabelle Reymen, Wan Ri Ho, Nikolai Kazantsev, Torbjørn Netland, Justyna Dąbrowska, PhD, Joona Keränen, PhD, Anne-Laure Mention, Sigvald Harryson, Peter Lorange
Link to special issue: https://cmr.berkeley.edu/browse/issues/67_1/