Henry Chesbrough famous quotes

03-26-2025

Most innovations fail. And companies that donâ€™t innovate die.
-- Henry Chesbrough

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Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology
-- Henry Chesbrough

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In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firmâ€™s business should be taken outside the company.
-- Henry Chesbrough

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No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.
-- Henry Chesbrough

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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
When all else fails, complicate matters
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

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