There's an excellent blog over on the Financial Times website which talks about Taiwan Semiconductors' launch of an Open Innovation Platform - a new model which promotes the development of next generation chip technology.

The problem that the OIP has been created to solve is one created by Moore's Law - the trend that semiconductor capacity roughly doubles every two years. While this remains true to this day, the economics are struggling to keep up, leaving technology hardware manufacturers in something of a quandary.

While customers continue to demand faster speeds and higher capacities, they also continue to demand lower costs. The solution? Shared development.And this is exactly what the OIP has been established to promote.

So cost needs to come down, and Mr Chang [Morris Chang, founder and now chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductors] proposes doing so by sharing R&D efforts with its clients.

Now then. Is it just me, or is this supplier collaboration? Is this not what cutting-edge thinkers in our space have been talking about and driving forward for some time? 

The difference, I suppose, is that Chang has created a cool name and is driving it forward with the force that only a chief executive can. But it shows just where the next evolution in business will be - not within organisations, but between them...