Some prominent examples of collaborative innovation include NASA's International Space Station program where teams from various countries have worked together since 1998 to maintain a permanent human presence in space; Open Source Software initiatives like Linux where thousands collaborate across different ...

Collaboration is key to innovation in the world of technology. By bringing together diverse perspectives, skills, and experiences, we can create groundbreaking solutions that solve complex problems and meet the needs of users.

So, open innovation is broader than collaborative innovation because it does not focus on the same problem. Open innovation concerns all the means that can be used by a firm to gain access to technology whereas collaborative innovation focuses on a way for firms to create a new technology and artifact.