The International Open and User Innovation Conference is the leading academic conference on Open and User Innovation. Around 200 researchers from various disciplines (such as innovation management, strategic management, organization design, marketing, intellectual property right management, entrepreneurship, and public policy) meet annually, in order to exchange recent research findings and plans related to Open and User Innovation.  The conference alternates between Europe and the US. This years’ conference was organized by the Technology and Operations Management unit of the Harvard Business School. Next year the conference will be returning to Austria (it was hosted by the WU Vienna in 2003 and 2011) as it will take place from July 9th-12th at the University of Innsbruck.