Collaborative innovation is the process of multiple employees or teams combining their knowledge, skills, experience and resources to create or improve upon a solution for a common benefit.

Collaboration in the workplace can vary based on the type of work environment your company implements. However, some common examples of collaboration in the workplace include brainstorming with other experts on staff, implementing routine reviews and avenues for feedback, or delegating tasks on a shared project.

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.