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Implementing Open Innovation
The Crowdsourcing website notes that as knowledge is widely distributed across the external environment, many companies have opened up their innovation process to gain access to the expertise of external parties and existing knowledge from different domains. While earlier literature has demonstrated positive performance contributions of open innovation,
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OI: Enhance Early Collaborative Product Potential
An article on the Crowdsourcing website notes that while the original idea of open innovation has been to involve external actors throughout the innovation process, in practice it has often been interpreted as only the integration of the final customer during the idea generation. This article introduces
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Open innovation: Organizational Practices and Policy Implications
In this doctoral thesis posted on the ESADE website, Henry Nelson reviews seven research articles which provide a broad perspective on open innovation, from the project level to the innovation system level of analysis. The studies include an exploration of different types of innovation intermediaries
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Open Innovation Monitor 2012
The crowdsourcing website posted a the results of a study, “Open Innovation Monitor 2012,” a survey of more than 200 German-speaking executives about the use of the Open Innovation methodology and the tools within the Open Innovation process. The survey concluded that innovation is a key
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Open Innovation in Charities
The Nesta Giving website reported on a study of the implementation of open innovation by 10 charities in Great Britain. While open innovation is relatively established in the commercial sector–with companies such as Kraft Foods Collaboration Kitchen being regularly cited as leading examples–open
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Open Innovation for Sustainability
The Crowdsourcing website posted an article which noted that open innovation, a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in 2003, has been the subject of increased interest in policy debates and academic studies. However, despite its growing popularity, open innovation has received relatively limited attention
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Knowledge Sharing inOpen Innovation
The Crowdsourcing website posted an article by Marcel Bogers of the University of Southern Denmark which provides an overview of collaborative innovation. The article notes that open innovation has received an increasing amount of attention from innovation scholars and practitioners alike. As a specific
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Open Innovation 2012
The Open Innovation Platform of the European Commission posted an article which represents one perspective of the need to create a new societal fabric for user-centric innovation, especially for the services sector. The knowledge-intense services will be the key for the creation of new growth beyond
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Open Innovation: Insights from a Historical Case Study
The Crowdsourcing website posted an article which presents qualitative research from a historical case focusing on the ARPANET project. Re-considering the history of ARPANET as a vivid example of Open Innovation (OI), the article seeks to identify the capabilities the innovative organization
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Leveraging External Sources of Innovation
An article on the SSRN website by Joel West and Marcel Bogers reviews research on open innovation that considers how and why firms commercialize external sources of innovations. It examines both the “outside-in” and “coupled” modes of Enkel et al. From an analysis of prior research on how firms
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