I'll try to do some quick drive-by posting in the next few days as well to make up for my blog silence last week (caused by work deadlines). But most of my attention this week will be focused on the just-published Open Innovation: The New Imperative For Creating And Profiting From Technology by Henry Chesbrough of HBS. Dr. Chesbrough has agreed to talk with me about his book tomorrow, so shortly thereafter you'll see my interview with him posted here at IdeaFlow.

Briefly, Open Innovation is about the shift that has happened in regards to the competitive advantage of innovation--formerly the competitive advantage lay in having in internal corporate R&D laboratory, and now the competitive advantage lies in leveraging the discoveries of others, via licensing technologies from other companies, or partnering or acquiring other companies.

If you've read this book and have a question you want me to ask Dr. Chesbrough, let me know. Otherwise, tune in for the interview, which will be posted starting Wednesday (hopefully!). Tomorrow I'll post a little more about the book itself. Meanwhile, here are some reviews of Open Innovation: in Product Bytes; in Ramana Raos' Information Flow; in Many Worlds.