For organisations to excel, they must unleash innovation beyond the boundaries of their own payroll. Mike Carr, Director of Research and Venturing at BT, will discuss how adopting an open innovation strategy – fusing the best of global and in-house innovation – stimulates sustained success, and how BT’s transformational 21CN programme is driving this open innovation approach.

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As Director of Research and Venturing, Mike Carr is responsible for BT’s world-leading research and commercial exploitation unit based at Adastral Park near Ipswich. This includes BT’s Patent Licensing and Corporate Venturing activities. Mike Carr joined BT as a technician apprentice in 1972, joining the Visual Communication Research Division at BT Labs in 1980. During his 15 years with BT’s labs his career has focused on the research, development and practical design of real-time audio/visual and multimedia communications systems. He has several patents to his name in the field of video compression, and is the holder of two prestigious BT awards; the Martlesham Medal for R&D (1992) and the BT Gold medal (1994) for leading multimedia product developments. From 1994 Mike Carr was responsible for driving BT’s company wide technology acquisition strategy and from 1999 he was based in Silicon Valley, USA where he established BT’s US Technology Office and Corporate Venturing activity. He returned to the UK in 2001 to take on his current post of leading BT’s Research & Venturing activity.

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