Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an open innovation setting in Mexico. An absorptive capacity...

The success of open innovation (OI) partnerships depends on the careful management of diverse relational dynamics, including trust, knowledge-sharing, and problem-solving interactions. This study applies multilayer network analysis to examine the relational dynamics of three distinct OI...

This study empirically explores the role of social capital in creating collaborative innovation and collective intelligence and maintaining organizational sustainability in the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Data were collected from a sample of 289 managers, directors and heads of departments of...

The domains of knowledge management and business models have been proven essential and promising for enhancing a firm’s performance to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This paper elaborates the conceptualization of explicitness of business model and how organizations may enhance...

Start-up collaboration units (SCUs) are organizational units specifically created by large companies to facilitate collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation ecosystems (CIEs). The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of SCUs with reference to the transfer of...

Open innovation has rendered increased interest both in practice and research, and has expanded from dyadic transfers of ideas, to ecosystem levels. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation, and this paper describes and discusses knowledge-transfer linkages for open innovation. It does so...