Keynote: Makers and Open Innovation Ecosystems

Vortrag

Makers are a new source for innovation and the Maker Movement has the potential to broaden participation in innovation.   The challenge for any business is to tap into this new source and participate in an open innovation ecosystem.  I will focus on how organizations are working with makers inside and outside their company to generate new ideas for products and helping makers take products from prototype to production. 

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// Dale Dougherty

is the founder and CEO of Maker Media, Inc. in Sebastopol, CA. Maker Media produces Make Magazine, which launched in 2005, and Maker Faire, which was held first in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. MAKE has been the catalyst for a worldwide Maker Movement that is transforming innovation in industry, hands-on learning in education and the personal lives of makers of all ages. MAKE invites everyone to become a maker, and integrate creative goals with technical skills. Dougherty was a co-founder of O'Reilly Media, where he was the first editor of their computing trade books, and developed GNN in 1993, the first commercial website.