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A New Approach for Detecting Open Innovation in Patents
The Springer website posted an article from The Journal of Technology Transfer which discusses to what extent open innovation is utilized in R&D departments by using patents as a main source. The paper adopts the “designation of the inventor” as a new method for detecting open or closed innovation, a method which examines the type of relationship
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A Theory of Resource Openness
The Researchgate website posted a research paper which noted that many firms have opened once proprietary information resources (e.g., digital content, code, and APIs) to public use via the Internet. Such open strategies challenge traditional resource-level theories that suggest protecting such resources
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Assessing the Breadth of Open Innovation Practices
Sinergie, the Italian Journal of Management, posted a research paper which first, aims to identify open innovation practices (OIP) used by empirical studies in the context of the open innovation (OI) field. Second, it aims to test the inverted U-shaped relationship between the breadth of OIP and innovation
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In Search of Disruptive Ideas
The InsideScienceOnline website noted that the key challenge for data science in open innovation web systems is to find best ideas among thousands of community submissions. To date, this has been done with metrics reflecting enterprise needs or community preferences. This article proposes to look in
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Four Skills For Successful Open Innovation
The Asian Scientist website reported that rather than depend solely on its own strengths and resources to innovate, organizations are beginning to realize the benefits of partnering with external collaborators for success, practicing open innovation (OI). This strategy has become something of a gold
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Advancing Open Innovation Teaching
The Proquest website described a study which noted that the existing Open Innovation teaching programs are rather limited and the tools and methods applied are not yet widely discussed in business and academia. Building on the results of a large EU project developed first in Europe OI curriculum, the
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A Process View and a Framework of Open Innovation in SMEs
The ProQuest website posted an article which is a research-in-progress outcome of a large-scale study of open innovation in European SMEs. The study presents a process model of an open innovation in SMEs, which has been developed and validated through the course of studying the cases of 117 Europe-based
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Open Innovation in Family Firms
The Emerald Insight website posted a study whose purpose is to shed light on how family firms execute open innovation strategies by managing internal and external knowledge flows (KF) to provide a deeper understanding of family firms’ ability to innovate through traditions and create value across generations.
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A comparative stakeholder approach for developing open innovation activities in SMEs
The Science Direct website posted an study which noted that recent literature on open innovation (OI) highlights the need for studies regarding the factors that influence firms to switch from a closed to an OI strategy. At the same time, stakeholder literature points out the scarcity of knowledge regarding
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Innovation: I’MNOVATION Challenge Targets Sustainability in Mining
The Canadian Mining Journal reported that a new open innovation program looks to tap ideas from startups around the world to solve some of the mining sector’s most pressing problems. Ennomotive has launched in Chile I’MNOVATION, the open innovation startup program by ACCIONA, a leading multinational
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