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How to Manage Outside Innovation

MIT Sloan management reviewPublished 1 January 2009
Kevin Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani
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Abstract

important role that outside innovators can play, look no further than Apple Inc.’s wildly successful iPhone. Thousands of external software developers have written com-plementary applications for the iPhone that have greatly enhanced its value, transforming the product into a blockbuster that has become the center of a thriving business ecosystem. Of course, the fundamental concept of “open innovation”

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Computer ScienceBusiness, Management and AccountingSocial Sciences