The latest issue of RSM Outlook, the Alumni and Corporate Relations Magazine of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, has featured several pages on Open Innovation, including an interview with Harry Barkema, Executive Director of the ICCL. The online version can be viewed or downloaded here. See pp. 30 ff. for reference.
Interesting article on Business Model Innovation (with a book recommendation) on the Harvard Business blog:
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/is_your_company_courageous_eno.html
A few days ago The Economist has published a special report on telecoms in emerging markets. An interesting read, particularly since mobile phones constitute an infrastructure which, unlike the internet or brick-and-mortar businesses or banks, is available to large parts of the population in developing countries, and can be used in various ways - even as electronic money.
The following slideshow is a 3-hour lecture from Alexander Osterwalder at the Jacobs University in Bremen/ Germany in the context of impACT, a pan-European student competition in social entrepreneurship. Thought it would be interesting to share.
Yesterday we have launched an online community named bopity. It was set up to share and discuss material around the "base of the pyramid" (BOP).
One of the ICCL's workstreams is Business Model Innovation at the base of the pyramid, and we would like to encourage researchers, teachers and students from academia, representatives from the business world, members of NGOs, but also people at the bottom of the pyramid from all over the world to join us and share thoughts, insights and experiences, discuss what's hot and what's not in the BOP world, post business or job opportunities in the BOP area, share projects, case studies and know-how and all kinds of other things around the base of the pyramid.
It's a community which is free for everyone to access. Please feel free to join if you're interested in cooperating in this area, and please invite your colleagues and friends too if they are. And most of all: Please contribute. A community can only be as interesting as the contributions from its members, both in quality and quantity.