Prof. Dr. Ellen Enkel
The 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference, themed “Open Innovation in the Digital Age”, co-hosted with ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, took place from December 15th to 16th and brought together renowned academics, leading enterprises and innovators in the Open Innovation area to discuss new theoretical and applied research in open innovation.
Prof. Ellen Enkel was invited to give a keynote at the conference in Barcelona at the Esade Business School organized by Prof. Dr. Henry Chesbrough and Dr. Marcel Bogers. She spoke in front of 200 participants from science and practice about the influence of digitalization on the research field open innovation as well as how digital technologies might help to study collaborative innovation in the future. Additionally, she was inviting scholars to submit their work to the special issue she is editing with Prof. Dr. Henry Chesbrough in the R&D Management Journal in February 2017.