Tucci, Christopher L.Chesbrough, HenryPiller, FrankWest, Joel2016-07-192016-07-192016-07-19201610.1093/icc/dtw002https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/127322WOS:000374233900005The explicit goal of the inaugural World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) was to attract both leading academic researchers in open innovation and leading industry practitioners of open innovation, seeking to get these two groups to engage with one another. This introductory article sets the intellectual context of the WOIC, summarizes the "top" four articles resulting from the conference, and provides a research agenda based on a high-level view of all the submissions and sessions.text::journal::journal article::research article