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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Innovation Survey, we identify a sample of innovative firms that we explore with regard to their commitment to R&D. We thereby … create a measure for informal innovation—that is, innovation not explicitly planned and budgeted—by identifying innovative … firms that do not conduct any R&D. We argue that user innovators are the main source of such technological innovation and …

We build on and extend the literature in open innovation and absorptive capacity by showing that a firm’s functional … areas are an important locus of innovation and learning, in contrast to most existing literature, which takes the firm as … product and process innovation. By using unique survey data and multi-equation regression, we show that there exists an …

This chapter proposes an integrative model for internal and external commercialization of technology-driven innovation … innovation that is not yet fully understood by academics and managers alike. The chapter first reviews dominant literature and … frameworks in the areas of innovation, technology-driven innovation, and external technology commercialization. It subsequently …

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 …