Christensen (1997) provided evidence for disruptions in the hard disk drive industry by examining the technological changes of disk drives. By building up the disruption model, Christensen argues that the failures of the established firms in the industry to respond to simple technological...

Background: Innovating how organisations run their business is a strategic decision to create more value for customers using or consuming the product and/or service provided. In addition to the incentive of everybody embracing digital transformation, digital technologies, and digital innovation,...

Few studies on open innovation (OI) have addressed OI practices in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and resulting benefits differ from large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the same...

Open innovation has of late emerged as a popular innovation management concept that advocates opening up of the innovation processes in firms. Despite researchers writing against open innovation being a new concept, research into open innovation activities of firms, as evidenced by the growing...

When, on 21st September 2006, 'The Economist' compared incumbent telecommunication operators with dinosaurs that could soon face extinction, most readers were ready to agree. The mixture of declining revenues and fierce competition was believed to shake the market and soon to dethrone former...

Open innovation allows large organizations to collaborate across a wide ecosystem of potential partners, reducing risk and increasing the potential for successful disruptive products and services. In China, appliance giant Haier has experienced significant success using its HOPE platform, which...

This paper investigates the development of an open innovation (OI) ecosystem in Israel by analyzing the evolution of OI activities, processes, functions, and practices in the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem from 1993 to 2022. Our findings show a movement from internal patterns of innovation...

Technological revolutions mark profound transformations in socio-economic systems. They are associated with the diffusion of general purpose technologies that display very high degrees of pervasiveness, dynamism and complementarity. This paper provides an in-depth examination of the technologies...

Technological revolutions mark profound transformations in socio-economic systems. They are associated with the diffusion of general purpose technologies that display very high degrees of pervasiveness, dynamism and complementarity. This paper provides an in-depth examination of the technologies...

IT service businesses can achieve economies of scale and scope faster than in traditional product businesses. In particular, as IT service platforms will become the founding infrastructure of our economies, the analysis and understanding of the value that a service platform can generate is of...