We welcome you to what promises to be a most intensive, exciting intellectual experience. We have both written extensively on the topic of Open Innovation (which we will define carefully during the Course), but we believe that the best work in this area is yet to come! We have selected some readings and chapters to guide you in preparing for the first two days of the Course. You will get much more out of the Course if you make the time to put more into it. Please read the assigned material carefully, and come prepared to share your questions, reflections and criticisms with us and your colleagues. Furthermore, upon registration participants bring a poster (A2 format) of their current or indented PhD research on open innovation to be discussed with faculty and Ph.D. candidates.