Open innovation system and collaboration platform for the large EU infrastructure projects: NETLIPSE case study

Technological and organizational excellence is the key element for business success in any modern business and project environment. Post globalization and instable business environments demand permanent improvements and changes of business processes. "Open the boxes" and exchange information, ideas and set-up collaboration with stakeholders such as customers, end-users, clients, vendors, business partners, potential competitors - this is a challenge of current (project-) organizations and their innovative environments. The open innovation environment concept was born in 2003, presented by professor Chesbrough from Berkley. Since then, researchers and practitioners are searching for successful applications of this idea. How we can improve the performance of large infrastructure projects by using this concept of work will be presented in this paper. The theoretical introduction will be illustrated by practical example of the existing NETLIPSE knowledge network. NETLIPSE is the network for dissemination of knowledge on the management and organization of large infrastructure projects in Europe.