Teaching Engineers About Open Innovation
Sabine Brunswicker · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024
Abstract This chapter introduces an experiential learning framework to teach engineering students about open innovation. Following this cyclical framework, students learn how to choose a particular open innovation governance mode for a particular R&D project through a cycle of active conceptualization, concrete experiences, and reflections. The framework includes eight project-level case studies that are used in case-based, simulated experiences, in which students act as R&D team members who use open innovation for their particular R&D problem. In addition, the framework also foresees that students gain experience in acting as external open innovation partners who solve problems of a real open innovation project using a particular mode.