The secret to client-supplier innovation cooperation that lasts

摘要

Now that Open Innovation is quite an imperative for the majority of firms, these true stories reflect a small part of the variety and complexity of issues faced by managers when it comes to cooperate in innovation. The majority of such cooperation occurs between client and supplier. These cooperations are also the oldest and the most fruitful forms of Open Innovation. But they also concentrate the highest number of stakes and contradictory logics.