Thank You to All Who Attended #WOIC2016!

3RD ANNUAL WORLD OPEN INNOVATION CONFERENCE

Ferran Adrià

Founder of elBulliFoundation & Former Chef and owner of El Bulli

Keynote Speaker

Marcel Planellas

Professor,ESADE

Gerardo Pisarello Prados

Vice Mayor
of Barcelona

Welcome Address

Carlos Moedas

EU Commissioner: Research, Science & Innovation

Keynote Speaker

Eugenia Bieto

Director General, ESADE

Welcome Address

Alberto Prado

Vice President, Head of Digital Accelerator
Royal Philips

George Yip

Imperial College London,
and CEIBS

Yan Xu

Associate Dean,
HKUST Business School
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Xiaolan Fu

Oxford University

Max von Zedtwitz

Director,
GLORAD

Ivan Bofarull

Innovation Catalyst,
ESADE

Keegan Pierce

Global Sports Consultant,
ESADE

Jorge Juan Fernández García

Director of E-Health,
SJD Hospital Barcelona

Pere Obrador

Open Innovation Program, Telefonica

Jonathan Wareham

Dean of Faculty & Research, ESADE

Welcome Address

Ellen Enkel

Professor for Innovation Management at Zeppelin University

Welcome Address

Esteve Almirall

Director Center for Innovation in Cities, ESADE

Sohyeong Kim

Executive Director, Food Innovation & Design Research, Stanford University

Henry Chesbrough

Conference Chair, UC Berkeley & ESADE

Featured Speaker

Wim Vanhaverbeke

Conference Co-Chair, Hasselt University

Solomon Darwin

Industry Chair,
UC Berkeley

Marcel Bogers

Academic Chair,
University of Copenhagen

Over 188 Paper Submissions!

The 3rd Annual World Open Innovation Conference was co-hosted with ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. It brought together renowned academic scholars, leading companies and innovators in the Open Innovation space. R&D Management provided a Special Issue comprised of the best papers submitted to the conference.

WOIC 2016 Industry Sponsors:

Academic Sponsors:

Garwood-BW

haas-BW

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Babson-BW