Founding Executive Director · UC Berkeley Open Innovation Labs
Open innovation,
accelerating abundance for humanity.
Almog Goldstein founded the Open Innovation program at UC Berkeley Haas under Dr. Henry Chesbrough — the father of open innovation — and leads a global community of practitioners, professors, and corporates rewriting how firms innovate.
Open Innovation projects
Berkeley students trained
Open Innovation experts recruited
Years leading the Open Innovation Labs
The Network
Companies I work with.
The Open Innovation Advisory Board: 60+ leading Open Innovation experts from global corporations and top academic institutions — founded and led by Almog Goldstein. We meet monthly to discuss what actually works.
The People
Professors I work with.
The leadership team of the UC Berkeley Open Innovation Labs at the Institute for Business Innovation.
Dr. Sara Beckman
Founding Chair, Product Management
Pioneer of Innovation as a Learning Process | Founding Director, UC Berkeley Executive Product Management
Dr. Henry Chesbrough
Founding Chair, Open Innovation
The Father of Open Innovation | World's Top 2% Scientists
Dr. David Teece
Founding Chair, Dynamic Capabilities
Pioneer of Dynamic Capabilities | World's #1 Cited Business & Management Professor
Dr. Bowman Heiden
Founding Faculty Director
Berkeley Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership
Dr. Holly Schroth
Founding Faculty, Negotiations & Influence
Faculty Director, Berkeley Executive Negotiation Program
The Discipline
What is Open Innovation?
Coined by Dr. Henry Chesbrough at UC Berkeley in 2003, Open Innovation is the deliberate use of inflows and outflows of knowledge across the boundaries of the firm. Instead of inventing alone, firms partner with startups, universities, and other corporations to accelerate innovation — and to commercialize ideas that would otherwise stay on the shelf.
Outside-in
Bring external ideas, technologies, and startups into the firm to accelerate internal innovation.
Inside-out
License, spin out, and commercialize internal IP and ideas that sit outside the core business.
Ecosystem Orchestration
Co-create with partners across industry, academia, and startups to build what no one could alone.
The Work
What we've built so far.
Five chapters of building an open innovation practice at one of the world's leading universities.
Live projects
From one project to the Open Innovation Labs
Turned a single innovation project into the Open Innovation Squad, which later became the Open Innovation Labs at UC Berkeley — now running 15+ projects with 70+ students and dozens of firms, helping firms apply, manage, and measure Open Innovation while students gain real-world practical experience.
Global experts
Founded the Open Innovation Advisory Board
Started the Open Innovation Advisory Board — 60+ of the top Open Innovation experts from industry and academia — gathering each month to discuss the field's hardest challenges.
Berkeley programs
Cross-pollination across UC Berkeley
Collaborated and exchanged knowledge with dozens of UC Berkeley programs and schools. The more we see, the less we know.
Disciplines, one program
Custom student training curriculum
Created a custom training for our students covering Open Innovation, Product Management, Intellectual Property, and Negotiation.
PhD courses · conferences · field visits
Global research footprint
Participated in Open Innovation PhD courses, attended Open Innovation conferences, and visited Open Innovation teams around the world.
Latest Research
The Strategic Bottleneck: How Generative AI is Reshaping Corporate Innovation
A look at how the OI Labs helps firms reconfigure internal routines to foster a culture of "strategic openness" in the age of generative AI.
Internal Open Innovation Firm Practices & Strategic Value Capture
A practical research piece on how firms structure internal practices to actually capture strategic value from Open Innovation — not just run programs that look good on a slide.
Roles
Positions held.
- Founding Executive Director, Open Innovation LabsUC Berkeley Haas2025 — Present
- Founding PresidentOpen Universe, LLC2025 — Present
- Member, Innovation & Entrepreneurship CouncilUC Berkeley2024 — Present
- Coach, Product Management StudioBerkeley Executive Education2022 — Present
- Founding President, Open Innovation SquadUC Berkeley2022 — 2025
- MentorBerkeley SkyDeck2022 — Present
- Co-Founder & CEOBeaches App, Inc.2022 — 2025
- VP ProductKeepers Child Safety2020 — 2022
Education
Trained under the people who wrote the field.
- Executive Leadership, Product & Business Program (COBE), Haas School of Business
- PhD Course in Open Innovation, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley — Dr. Henry Chesbrough, Dr. Agnieszka Radziwon, Dr. Joel West
- PhD Course in Researching Open Innovation, University of Antwerp — Dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke, Dr. Agnieszka Radziwon
- Executive Product Management Program, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley — Dr. Sara Beckman
Let's build something open.
For collaboration with the UC Berkeley Open Innovation Labs, advisory engagements, or speaking — reach out directly.
Gallery
Moments from the work
On stage, on campus, and in the room with the people building Open Innovation at Berkeley and beyond.
