For our open innovation efforts to be successful, it's crucal for them to be aligned to corporate strategy and with internal stakeholders. How does that work in practice?

In this conversation, we will explore together where open innovation fits into an organization and how this impacts the effectiveness (stand alone unit, or part of R&D, or business).

Marie-Jose, Adriana and Tim will address the importance of aligning expectations, also on timeframes and how this affects the approach you take, and share their lessons learned.

Marie-Jose van den Boomgaard strongly beliefs in Open Innovation and is a true connector to get business done. As a Liaison Manager Scaleups at KPN, her team connects innovative companies to business challenges from KPN and realized over time over 350 cooperations. Check here an audio file on how they do that.

Besides KPN she is active as a Board Member of Costa, an initiative by VNO-NCW, where over 20 strong Dutch brands power forces and share knowledge on how to optimize working with Scaleups. Finally MJ is an active participant in www.alaian.com where 7 international telco’s focus on innovation, disruption and sharing scaleups.

Adriana has extensive experience in founding companies, as well as designing, and managing entrepreneurial programs and driving innovation agendas for large companies (Philips, Unilever). This gives her a unique perspective when it comes to forming collaborations and partnerships with various ecosystem stakeholders.

Tim has over 20 years of experience as an innovator in large corporates. Starting off at DSM, where he held various positions ranging from R&D through to new business development and finally as an innovation coach to the top innovation teams/projects across DSM.

At Stahl he set up their open innovation program with the aim to connect to and partner with external parties having technologies and capabilities that are adjacent to, and complimentary with Stahl's own in order to accelerate growth and realize Stahl's strategic ambitions around sustainable, high performance coatings in a range of markets and applications.