Make More of Your Knowledge
Monetize unused R&D and internal breakthroughs by identifying external markets, licensees, and partners ready for your intellectual property.
New Paper Published — April 2026
Published by
UC Berkeley Haas
Open Innovation Labs
Internal Open Innovation Firm Practices & Strategic Value Capture
Almog Goldstein's latest paper examines how firms reconfigure internal routines to foster a culture of strategic openness — moving beyond tactical collaboration to treat underutilized R&D not as a misfit to be patented and abandoned, but as an asset for Inside-Out value capture.
Drawing on work at the UC Berkeley Open Innovation Labs, the paper lays out three internal capabilities required for OI success: strategic alignment and value capture, the Want-Find-Get-Manage framework, and Teece's Dynamic Capabilities (Sense, Seize, Transform). Dedicated to Professor Henry Chesbrough on his 70th birthday.
01 / The Discipline
What is Open Innovation?
Open Innovation is a business management model that promotes collaborating with people and organizations outside the firm. It marks a shift from traditional R&D silos to a distributed, decentralized, and participatory ecosystem — where ideas flow across boundaries to create new value.
"Instead of re-inventing the wheel, an Open Innovation project seeks to leverage available external knowledge and extend upon it."
— Professor Henry Chesbrough, Father of Open Innovation
02 / Strategic AdvantagesWhy work in the open
Reduce R&D Costs
Fill capability gaps by integrating proven external solutions instead of reinventing the wheel inside the firm.
Ship Faster, Enter New Markets
Compress time-to-market by leveraging external talent pools, pre-vetted technologies, and partner channels.
The Core Principle
The best use of internal and external ideas to create value — wherever they originate.
03 / Engagement ModelsHow we work together
Strategic Advisory
Long-term partnership to restructure organizational innovation workflows, IP strategy, and external partnership governance.
- — Audit
- — Roadmap
- — Implementation
Research Partnerships
Connecting corporate challenges with top-tier academic research and specialized deep-tech labs through scoped engagements.
- — Scoping
- — Talent Sourcing
- — IP Transfer
Workshops & Talks
Intensive training and keynote sessions on the four core competencies of Open Innovation — for executive teams and academic conveners alike.
- — On-site
- — Curriculum
- — Keynotes
Behind the work
Translating research into industry-defining results.
Open Universe is led by Almog — an Open Innovation strategist trained in the field at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he spent four years researching and advising firms on how to capture more value from what they already know.
His practice spans 15+ corporate engagements, a network of 60+ subject-matter experts, and teaching invitations from leading academic and executive programs across the U.S. and abroad.
Meet Almog →Start a project. Book a talk.
Whether you're scoping a corporate Open Innovation engagement or inviting Almog to teach, the door is open.
almog@open-universe.org