Innovationsaktivitäten mit externem Know-how zu verknüpfen. Chesbrough (2003) prägt dafür das Konzept „Open Innovation.“ Der zentrale … konzeptionelle Beitrag dieser Arbeit besteht darin, existierende Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema Open Innovation um die Chancen und … Innovation nicht nur die Öffnung von Innovationsaktivitäten über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg, sondern auch jenseits von nationalen …

leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …

Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these … its breadth. Moreover, we find that scarce innovation environments favor deep search strategies while breadth is more …

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the … market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm …’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on …

The shift toward more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic in recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define where to search for … search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation success with …