The adoption of open innovation practices is becoming increasingly important for SMEs seeking to remain competitive in … today's fast-paced business environment. The aim of this study is to understand the implementation of open innovation … processes by SMEs while highlighting two critical processes: open innovation implementation (OII) and open ambidextrous …

Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can be built up horizontally with actors … consisting only of innovation users (more precisely, user/self-manufacturers ). Some open source software projects are examples … conditions under which user innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We then explore related …