Martin Eberhard
Co-Founder & First CEO of Tesla Motors | Pioneer of the Modern Electric Vehicle | Silicon Valley Inventor with 22+ Patents | Innovation & Sustainability Speaker
Henry Chesbrough
Father of Open Innovation | Maire Tecnimont Professor, Luiss University | Founding Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley Haas
Henry Chesbrough is the world's leading authority on open innovation, the paradigm he created that transformed corporate R&D and technology strategy worldwide. Cited by more than 130,000 scholars, his frameworks guide Fortune 500 leaders in using external partnerships for growth. Audiences gain actionable strategies for building innovation ecosystems, embedding sustainability, and turning collaboration into lasting competitive advantage.
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Henry Chesbrough biography
Innovation speaker Henry Chesbrough is the world’s foremost authority on open innovation, the paradigm he introduced that reshaped how organizations create and capture value from technology. He serves as the Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation and Sustainability at Luiss University in Rome and as Founding Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, bridging academic rigor with practical impact across two continents.
Chesbrough earned his economics degree at Yale, an MBA at Stanford, and a PhD in business administration at UC Berkeley. Before entering academia, he worked in marketing at Quantum Corporation and taught at Harvard Business School. That blend of corporate practice and scholarly depth gives his insights an authority that resonates with executive audiences worldwide.
Pioneering Open Innovation and Its Next Chapter
His landmark book Open Innovation argued that companies should draw on both internal and external ideas to advance their technology rather than relying solely on in-house R&D. Later works, including Open Business Models, Open Services Innovation, Open Innovation Results, and the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, extended the framework across services, business design, and academic scholarship. Cited by well over 130,000 researchers, he ranks among the most influential management thinkers of his generation, and the European Commission recognized his contributions with the Innovation Luminary Award.
His recent work pushes open innovation to ecosystem scale, examining how industries, regions, and societies can co-create shared value through collaborative governance. His partnership with Maire Tecnimont at Luiss reflects a growing focus on embedding sustainability into innovation strategy, aligning profitable growth with environmental responsibility, and he continues to assess two decades of evidence on what makes open innovation deliver measurable results.
As a speaker, Henry Chesbrough delivers keynotes that equip leaders with practical frameworks for harnessing external knowledge, building collaborative ecosystems, and turning innovation into durable competitive advantage.
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Henry Chesbrough Keynote Topics
Organizations can no longer rely solely on internal R&D to stay competitive. In this keynote, Henry Chesbrough presents his foundational framework for open innovation, showing how companies can systematically identify, evaluate, and integrate external ideas, technologies, and talent into their innovation pipelines. Drawing on case studies from global corporations, he explains how to build the organizational structures, incentive systems, and cultural mindsets that enable effective collaboration with startups, universities, and cross-industry partners. Leaders leave with a practical roadmap for transforming their innovation processes from closed silos into dynamic, externally connected engines of growth.
As economies shift from product-centric to service-centric models, companies must fundamentally rethink how they create and deliver value. Chesbrough demonstrates how open innovation combined with a services approach unlocks powerful new business models, enabling organizations to co-create solutions with customers and partners rather than pushing finished products to market. He explores how platform-based thinking, data-driven services, and ecosystem partnerships allow companies to generate recurring revenue streams and deepen customer relationships in ways that pure product strategies cannot achieve.
Open innovation has evolved beyond bilateral partnerships between individual firms. In this forward-looking keynote, Chesbrough explores how entire industries, regions, and societies can orchestrate innovation ecosystems that generate shared value. He examines the governance structures, incentive designs, and trust-building mechanisms that make collaborative ecosystems work, with particular attention to how sustainability goals can be integrated into innovation strategy. Audiences gain a strategic perspective on aligning profitable growth with environmental and social responsibility through collective action.
FAQs on Booking Henry Chesbrough
Why Henry Chesbrough?
Henry Chesbrough is a rare figure in management thinking: he did not merely study innovation, he redefined how the world understands it. As the creator of the open innovation paradigm, his ideas have been adopted by thousands of organizations worldwide, from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies. His dual professorships at UC Berkeley Haas and Luiss University in Rome give him a uniquely transatlantic perspective, while his citation count of well over 130,000 scholars attests to the lasting impact of his work. On stage, Chesbrough combines intellectual depth with practical clarity, leaving audiences with frameworks they can implement immediately. Book Henry Chesbrough through Aurum Speakers Bureau for your next event to bring the world's leading open innovation thinker to your stage.
What is open innovation and who created the concept?
Open innovation is a paradigm coined by Henry Chesbrough in his seminal book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. The concept holds that organizations should use both internal and external ideas, as well as internal and external paths to market, to advance their technology and create value. Rather than relying exclusively on in-house R&D, companies practicing open innovation actively seek partnerships, licensing arrangements, joint ventures, and knowledge sharing with external entities. The framework has influenced corporate strategy across industries including technology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, energy, and financial services.
What are Henry Chesbrough's most influential books?
Chesbrough has authored several landmark works on innovation management. Open Innovation (2003) introduced the foundational framework. Open Business Models (2006) explored how companies can profit from the new innovation landscape through licensing and collaborative business design. Open Services Innovation (2011) extended the paradigm to service-based economies. Open Innovation Results (2020) assessed two decades of evidence on the impact and evolution of open innovation practices. He also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation, the definitive academic reference on the field.
What topics does Henry Chesbrough address in his keynote speeches?
Henry Chesbrough's keynotes focus on helping leaders transform their organizations through collaborative innovation strategies. His core topics include the principles and practice of open innovation, building innovation ecosystems at industry and regional scale, integrating sustainability into innovation strategy, transitioning from product-centric to service-driven business models, and managing intellectual property in an era of shared knowledge. He tailors his presentations to executive audiences across industries, drawing on decades of research and consulting experience. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Henry Chesbrough to your next leadership summit or corporate event.
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