"Open Business Models", First Thoughts

I am about a third of the way through reading "Open Business Models" by Henry Chesbrough. It is very interesting read. It relates to many of the things I have been doing this summer.

The book talk a lot about managing intellectual property within a business environment. Chesbrough believes most businesses need to open themselves up more and create more open business models. He points out that many companies leave 90% of their I.P. unused. Very inefficient. He thinks many companies should find way to share there knowledge between each other.

At the same time Chesbrough points out that there is such a thing as being too open. He gives the example of a company that wrote an unique operating system. The company was trying to get Microsoft interested in developing software for it. But instead Microsoft took many of the ideas and released a rival OS and put them out of business.

More to come as I read...