Many firms have mastered new product development and sustaining innovation by applying well-established methodologies … models and strategies, initiation of entire new industries, need for a full innovation life cycle to realize their full … impact, and deep interconnectedness with global ecologies of innovation, putting them outside any firm’s control. In this …

In this conceptual article, we extend earlier work on Open Innovation and Absorptive Capacity. We suggest that the …

implementation of an inbound open innovation strategy. Cooperation and information sourcing from market actors is contrasted with … firms, which have so far been largely neglected in (open) innovation studies. Results indicate that cooperation with and … information sourcing from competitors positively influence innovation performance while market cooperation and information …

The open innovation concept has been discussed for more than a decade. However, there are relatively few studies … related to implementation of open innovation. Barriers of implementation have been identified, but they are not related to the … external knowledge searched for. This multiple-case study adds to current understanding of implementing open innovation …

knowledge that foster innovation and enhance the performance of firms. It is argued that firms that establish links with local …

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 …