The Innovator’s Journey Open Innovation (O-I) Loop leverages the Innovator’s Journey Way models and theories to advance the MIT definition of iEcosystems. The focus is to engage stakeholders by first seeding an innovation meaning within the ecosystem and then leveraging that meaning to create iEcosystem initiatives. The goal is to establish continuous loops of innovation in communities in an effort to catalyze iEcosystems.

The Innovator’s Journey Open Innovation Loop is a Blue Ocean Strategy with a broader aim of helping innovation communities create “uncontested market space” by leveraging the Innovator’s Journey Methodologies.