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Introducing open innovation and our course structure

Dr Christos Tsinopoulos introduces the concept of open innovation, what interests him about it, and offers some personal insights.

Meet Dr Christos Tsinopoulos, our lead educator for this course. Christos introduces the concept of open innovation, what interests him about it, and explains how the course is structured. You may like to view Christos’ profile and choose to ‘follow’ his posts on this course.

Course outline

You may find this week by week outline (PDF) a useful reference as you go through the course.

Course Team

Alongside Christos, you’ll be hearing from [Dr Mat Hughes] and Dr Tim Hammond in Week 2 – sharing their insight and experience relating to how an organisation prepares itself for open innovation. In Week 3, you’ll hear Professor Kiran Fernandes share some key research findings about applying open innovation to processes.

Introduce yourself

If you haven’t already, please post a little bit about yourself in the comments, your reasons for taking this course and what you hope to get out of it. We look forward to hearing from you.

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