Henry Chesbrough
#42 2017
#24 2015
#37 2013
#33 2011
Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Innovation Award
Henry Chesbrough has written extensively on the topic of innovation, and he is best known for his work on open innovation, a term that he helped popularize.
An adjunct professor, and executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Chesbrough was shortlisted for the 2013 Thinkers50 innovation award. He is the author of Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era (2011).
Chesbrough received the Industrial Research Institute’s Medal of Achievement in 2017.