Economic Evolution -- The Entrepreneurial Society -- Open Innovation -- The Idea Economy -- More and Better Innovation -- Setting the stage -- The Missing Link -- Narrowing the Gap -- Bridging the Gap -- Cooperative Innovation -- Cooperative Innovation and its Future.

The Open Incubator Model analyzes the different support policies needed in big cities, rural areas and country borders for entrepreneurs in developed and developing countries to generate cooperation and improve the business models of local SMEs. Ilan Bijaoui is Lecturer of Business Management at...

Carsten-Constantin Soeldner’s investigation enables embedded systems firms to understand how they can open their systems to gain access to the ideas and solutions of external users and developers. Similar to smartphones with their large number of apps, firms are now beginning to open their...

Florian Denker explores the role of an individual’s domain knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of early-stage new product ideas should...

This book reveals how open innovation utilizes the developing circle of business models to establish new ones that define a unique link between technology and markets, focusing on how to develop and maintain successful business models. It draws readers into the philosophy and economic effects of...

Inga Haase zeigt nicht nur, dass Kommunikation ein wichtiger Einflussfaktor im Kontext von Open Innovation ist, sondern auch, über welche Faktoren, Strukturen und Ebenen sie die Open Innovation-Prozesse und -Aktivitäten kleiner Unternehmen beeinflusst. Die Autorin analysiert in diesem...

Based on multiple case study analysis, focusing on scalable service innovation, the present study provides a practical process model that shall serve telecommunication companies as a guideline while conducting strategic cross-industry innovation projects. The findings also pay attention to...

Based on interviews with R&D managers and a survey amongst R&D employees, Verena Nedon shows that perceived social pressure has an immense impact on R&D employees working in OI-projects. Employees’ attitude (regardless of whether positive or negative) and perceived behavioral control play an...

Introduction -- University Ecosystems Design Creative Spaces for Start-up Experimentation -- Capitalizing on Open Innovation 2.0 -- Laboratory Experiments as a Tool in the Empirical Economic Analysis of High-Expectation Entrepreneurship -- Accelerating Venture Creation and Building on Mutual...

Because of the specific characteristics of innovation communities, social relationships between community members play a pivotal role for performance in such settings. In response, Martin Dumbach takes a social capital perspective and approaches the research question: What are antecedents of...