Open and collaborative innovation?

a. Choose a firm with whom you are familiar and imagine that you are an innovation consultant to that

firm, facing the task to help enhance the firms innovation activities through open and collaborative

innovation.

b. Suggest some possible elements of open and collaborative innovation for the firm and, in particular, some implementation mechanisms that you think would make it possible for the firm to benefit open and collaborative innovation for the target(s) of the firm.

c. Would there be a difference in your advice to the firm if the aim is to grow through open and collaborative innovation opposed to closed innovation?