This paper explores how an open approach to new venture creation — purposefully managing knowledge flows across the venture's organizational boundary — can be beneficial for start-up entrepreneurs. Our inductive case study, of both failure and success, identifies the key attributes of this...

Purpose of this paper: This paper investigates the paradox that arises when firms simultaneously share and protect their knowledge in an alliance with other organizations. The goal of this paper therefore is to explore this tension field in such a coupled open innovation process and to identify...

In this paper we explore the concept of informal innovation by investigating it both on the input (activities) and output (impact) side of the innovation process. Informal innovation is defined as innovation that is not explicitly planned and budgeted and therefore remains largely hidden in...