In 2003, Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” as a new paradigm for industrial innovation. In this paper, we … innovations — one of the key open innovation practices.This paper provides a comprehensive overview and process model of open … innovation. We classify prior studies in open innovation according to a four-phase process model for inbound open innovation that …

Firms' innovation performance and productivity depend on engaging the entire organization in the innovation process … “productive” activities in innovation. This article explores how a firm can create an environment in which those employees can … during “on-the-job” activities. I draw on innovation, creativity and organizational climate research to explore the …

open innovation in dynamic and systemic innovation contexts. We present the case of four generations of mobile … innovation ecosystems. Throughout this development, technologies and technological relationships were governed with different and … benefit from openness and appropriation of innovation. Our analysis shows that the discussion of competitiveness and …

the same time, in order to be successful in open collaborative innovation, firms need to share their knowledge with others … property in open collaborative innovation. The chapter discusses how licensing strategies can be employed to balance various … manage protected knowledge that is developed and shared in collaborative innovation. Different elementary licensing schemes …

Open innovation has received an increasing amount of attention from innovation scholars and practitioners alike. As a … specific type of open innovation, collaborative innovation combines knowledge inflows and outflows and is thus at the core of … open innovation. To better understand this coupled process of open innovation, this chapter provides an overview of the …

While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact … that alleviates the lack of commercialization of user innovation …

In this paper, we explore innovation, as an inherently uncertain process, from a complexity perspective in which … innovation is understood as new patterns of experiences, as they emerge in human conversational interaction. By reflecting on … local interactions between people involved in processes of innovation, in three particular organizations for which one of …

While industrial innovation was once assumed to be a vertically integrated process, three recent streams of research … — open innovation, user innovation and cumulative innovation — have examined how innovation is created outside the boundaries … identify nine distinct innovation modes, which we systematically classify according to the locus of innovation creation and …

The use of external knowledge for innovation (i.e., inbound or outside-in open innovation) has received substantial … attention in the innovation literature. However, the “human side” of open innovation is still poorly understood. We consider the … external knowledge in their pursuit of innovation. Based on a combination of three data sources, namely, two survey data …