Open Innovation can provide a powerful complement to internal innovation and M&A to drive revenue growth. Hence, 3 years ago, Intuit ($3.5B, 8000 employees, Silicon Valley, USA) decide to embark on an initiative to introduce and grow open innovation. This seminar presents the journey that the organization went through and the experiences that were collected during the process from a participant-observer perspective. In addition, based on the case we present a framework for introducing open innovation in an organization. The seminar will be interactive with the opportunity for participants to share theoretical perspectives and additional industrial experiences to complement the presented case and framework.

Jan recently returned to a professorship in Software Engineering at Chalmers after 7 years in industry working as a vice president at Nokia and Intuit. At Nokia, he led the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center with sites in Helsinki, Tampere, Budapest, Bejing, Boston and San Diego. At Intuit, he was, among others, responsible for introducing Open Innovation, managing Intuit's engineering processes and leading the central mobile technologies team.

Petra is an associate professor at Chalmers at Construction Management. Earlier she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, California, and senior researcher at Aalto University, Finland as well as at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has a PhD from the University of Groningen in management and organization and a Licentiate degree from Lund University, Sweden.