vary in different types of customer involvement in innovation. The work applied the qualitative methodology of multiple … Finland and in the Netherlands that are practicing open innovation with their customers in one form or another. For the … analysis of challenges identified from the empirical data, a typology of open innovation with customers was built, resulting in …

In this paper, we develop and test a firm-level contingency model of inbound open innovation in an attempt to … contribute to explaining the substantial disparities in open innovation payoff that exist between firms. Integrating elements … from the resource- and knowledge-based views and the absorptive capacity literature, we propose that specific innovation …

Warum sind manche Unternehmen innovativer als andere, was entscheidet über den Erfolg einer Innovation, weshalb ist ein … Metall- und Elektroindustrie inklusive der Kunststoffindustrie analysiert. Die Bedeutung von »Innovation« sowie deren … erfolgreichen Innovation als schwierig plan- und steuerbar. Diese Problematik wird in modernen Organisationsstrukturen, wie »Open …

The paper describes findings from a multiple case study about the innovation management challenges of a system … integrator (SI) whose operation is characterized by a high demand of innovation and whose focus of integration capabilities is … the methodology of qualitative research. Innovation networks orchestrated by the SI were categorized, according to the way …

A number of recent works point towards open innovation as a new imperative for innovation management. Within more … traditional and conservative high-tech sectors such as aerospace, however, the literature on open innovation is fairly limited … perspectives from a study whose goal is to identify the implications of the innovation openness paradigm to the product development …

organizations, especially firms. This conception is reflected in a producer-oriented approach to science, technology and innovation … policy-making (STI). However a new understanding of the role of users within innovation processes is gradually taking shape … not captured by general statistics on innovation. Up to now the only exception is the empirical evidence-based study of …

organizations, especially firms. This conception is reflected in a producer-oriented approach to science, technology and innovation … policy-making (STI). However a new understanding of the role of users within innovation processes is gradually taking shape … not captured by general statistics on innovation. Up to now the only exception is the empirical evidence-based study of …

"Open innovation" and "external search" for new ideas are central topics in the recent discourse in innovation research …. External search helps firms to identify new opportunities for innovation and alleviates the risks of local search. It is widely … suppliers" from distant knowledge domains. However, the current discussion on open innovation has hardly touched upon the …

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. …

can they manage and drive collective innovation? We first build on a review of the literature to highlight common core … innovation intermediaries by exploring the properties of a form of intermediary for which the degree of unknown is a key …