Innovation Ecosystems vs Strategic Innovation Alliances: Sounds of Nature vs. Sounds of Symphony
CISCO led a multi-company, global innovation network for a number of years called the CISCO Hyperinnovation Living Labs (CHILL) using the concept and language of an incubator to describe it's organization of multi-company, multi-disciplinary teams to identify cross-industry problems and develop shared solutions. The term "innovation ecosystem" has been used, for example in a Harvard Business Review, to describe how CISCO managed the group as multi-party innovation. Clarity of
