ABSTRACT. This paper examines the conceptual relations between “openness” and “creativity,” creativity as the new development paradigm, and creative labor as a way of beginning a discussion of “radical openness” and its applications to institutions in the age of cognitive capitalism. This paper was the basis of a keynote presentation delivered to International Symposium on “The Creative University” at “Organization and Newness” Conference, Commission Organizational Education, German Educational Research Association (GERA) in cooperation with Philipps University Marburg, February 28th & March 1st, 2013. pp. 47–72

Keywords: radical openness, creative labor, cognitive capitalism