1. Map your company's ecosystem

The cross-functional performances of successful open innovation companies are :

• a culture that fosters trust and transparency both internally and with partners ;

• customer value based on the best compromise between customer expectations and industrial rationality;

• project management and collaborative project management skills ;

• legal skills (patents and intellectual property protection);

• networked companies that communicate ;

• exchange platforms with standard tools imposed by companies on their co-innovators;

• proximity to innovation clusters.

The traditional ecosystem used to organize a company, structure...