It turns out that "open" means very different things at big and small companies. We focus on the large ones this week, where "open" means actively gathering ideas and prototypes from people outside the company, often through explicit requests or competitions.SHOW LINKS:- Competition platforms: https://www.innocentive.com/ , https://www.ninesigma.com/ , https://www.yet2.com/ , https://www.kaggle.com/ , https://www.topcoder.com/- Henry Chesbrough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chesbrough- Open Innovation articles: https://jimeuchner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/two-flavors-of-innovation.pdf and https://jimeuchner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/limits-of-crowds.pdfFind us at http://jimeuchner.com/ and http://douglassquirrel.com