Firms' innovation performance and productivity depend on engaging the entire organization in the innovation process. Going beyond the typical focus on R&D, the focus of this article is on engaging those employees who are active in “productive” activities in innovation. This article explores...

Interest in open innovation (OI) as a field of research has grown exponentially since the phrase was coined by Chesbrough (2003), with numerous articles, special issues, books and conference sessions. Various reviews of the literature have summarized prior work, offered new frameworks and...

This chapter proposes an integrative model for internal and external commercialization of technology-driven innovation. It particularly addresses how firms can practically use external technology commercialization, which is a type of open innovation that is not yet fully understood by academics...