While firms increasingly adopt open innovation, little is known about whether firms gain or lose from this innovation approach. Motivated by this research gap in the literature, the thesis explores the antecedents and performance implications of open innovation strategies, particularly...

The Context of Open Evaluation: Innovation Contests -- The Design Elements of Open Evaluation -- The Objectives of Open Evaluation -- Key Factors affecting the Output of Open Evaluation -- The Capacity of Open Evaluation for Idea Selection -- How to Make the Crowd Your Jury

User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the customer integration into the early phases of new product development). Despite there existing a large body of research in the field of lead users and user innovation,...